Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
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Death in the Afternoon

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2007


Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway's classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature.

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on May 16, 2016

A live pelican is an interesting, amusing, and sympathetic bird, though if you handle him he will give you lice; but a dead pelican looks very silly. Lotz: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to book club. Did everyone finish our book? All: Yes, yes. Lotz: Good. Now did anybody like it? Doctor: I thought......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on December 17, 2015

Death In The Afternoon, Bigotry At Night What an unusual book. Macho, macho man Hemingway tells you everything you never wanted to know about bullfighting and will probably forget as soon as you put the book down. But there are also some worthwhile insights about aesthetics. THE GOOD... This volume......more

Goodreads review by Parmida R. A. on June 05, 2022

In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which is fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book is sophisticated and well-written, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent......more