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Article: Toros celebres: its meaning in 'Death in the Afternoon.'
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON, Ernest Hemingway's book on the bullfight, is full of references to other texts: fiction, poetry, travel writing, nature-writing, and bullfight writing.(1) Some of the references to bullfight writing--that is to books, magazines, and newspapers written for, people who follow the bull-fight--are to unidentified critics and historians and other taurine sources in general.(2) Others are to a specific work or writer. Among these we have the classic arts of bullfighting by Jose Delgado (Pepe-Hillo), Francisco Montes, and Rafael Guerra (Guerrita) (DIA 453); Diaz Arquer's comprehensive taurine bibliography, to which the reader is directed for further study ...