A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting,Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the natureof cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivenedthroughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life andliterature. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, arichly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkwardamateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.
【作者简介】
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the sonof a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as anambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home toAmerica in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as areporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning fromjournalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris wherehe renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriatessuch as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingwaytravelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationallyrecognized literary master of his craft. He received the NobelPrize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The OldMan and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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