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Article: Death in the Afternoon as seen by Tomas Orts-Ramos (Uno al Sesgo).
- Article from:
- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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FOUR REVIEWS OF Death in the Afternoon appeared in the Spanish press in 1933. All four were positive reviews. All four came out in respected magazines and newspapers. And all four were reviews of the original edition in English (1932)--since thirty-some years would pass before a translation was published in Spain. (1) Two of the reviews are by bullfight writers: one by the prolific Tomas Orts-Ramos, who wrote taurine criticism under the name Uno al Sesgo, and whose views are the subject of this article. The other is by Rafael Hernandez (Rafael), Hemingway friend and bullfight critic for the popular Madrid daily La Libertad. A third is by Lino Novas Calvo, novelist, ...