Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1932

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Death in the Afternoon

(1932) marked a departure from the fiction-writing career of Ernest Hemingway. A study of the Spanish bullfight, the book grew out of the author's keen interest in an event that he insisted was a tragedy, not a sport. By the time he began work on

Death in the Afternoon

, Hemingway had already published a lengthy short story, “The Undefeated”, and a novel,

The Sun Also Rises

, both of which drew upon his considerable knowledge of the

corrida de toros

. The new book was intended to follow up an early article Hemingway had published in the

Toronto Star Weekly

which explained the bullfight to an English-speaking audience.

At first Hemingway had intended the volume to be mainly a picture book, for which he would write a narrative. But as he continued to study the

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "Death in the Afternoon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5731, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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