Death In The Afternoon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Tight binding, no loose pages.
Few writers have so passionately immersed themselves in a foreign ritual as Ernest Hemingway did with the Spanish bullfight, and Death in the Afternoon stands as the definitive testament to that obsession. Published in 1932, this landmark non-fiction work chronicles the art, pageantry, and brutal choreography of bullfighting in Spain, presenting the corrida not merely as spectacle but as a living philosophy of courage, mortality, and grace under pressure. Hemingway instructs the uninitiated reader with the authority of a devoted student, detailing the precise movements of matadors, the culture of the plaza de toros, and the complex code of honour that governs every pass of the cape. Beyond its subject matter, Death in the Afternoon is an essential document of Hemingway's literary creed — a manifesto for the iceberg theory of prose, where the dignity of movement is found in what is left unsaid. The author's voice is by turns lyrical, didactic, and searingly honest, weaving personal anecdote with cultural commentary to produce a text that transcends the boundaries of travel writing, journalism, and criticism. For readers drawn to the intersection of violence and beauty, of life and its inevitable end, this remains one of the most vivid and uncompromising books ever written about a single human ritual.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Tight binding, no loose pages.
Few writers have so passionately immersed themselves in a foreign ritual as Ernest Hemingway did with the Spanish bullfight, and Death in the Afternoon stands as the definitive testament to that obsession. Published in 1932, this landmark non-fiction work chronicles the art, pageantry, and brutal choreography of bullfighting in Spain, presenting the corrida not merely as spectacle but as a living philosophy of courage, mortality, and grace under pressure. Hemingway instructs the uninitiated reader with the authority of a devoted student, detailing the precise movements of matadors, the culture of the plaza de toros, and the complex code of honour that governs every pass of the cape. Beyond its subject matter, Death in the Afternoon is an essential document of Hemingway's literary creed — a manifesto for the iceberg theory of prose, where the dignity of movement is found in what is left unsaid. The author's voice is by turns lyrical, didactic, and searingly honest, weaving personal anecdote with cultural commentary to produce a text that transcends the boundaries of travel writing, journalism, and criticism. For readers drawn to the intersection of violence and beauty, of life and its inevitable end, this remains one of the most vivid and uncompromising books ever written about a single human ritual.