--- product_id: 49585857 title: "Death In The Afternoon" price: "118.11 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49585857-death-in-the-afternoon store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Cocktail Recipe Classic Literature Author's Signature Style Death In The Afternoon **Price:** 118.11 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📚 Sip, Read, Repeat: A Hemingway Experience Awaits! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Death In The Afternoon - **How much does it cost?** 118.11 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49585857-death-in-the-afternoon) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cultural Icon:** Join the ranks of literary enthusiasts and cocktail connoisseurs. - • **Literary Insight:** Explore themes of life and death through a masterful lens. - • **Timeless Classic:** Dive into Hemingway's world of prose. - • **Perfect for Book Clubs:** Spark engaging discussions with friends over this iconic read. - • **Unique Cocktail Recipe:** Master the art of the Death In The Afternoon drink. ## Overview Death In The Afternoon is a celebrated work by Ernest Hemingway, blending a unique cocktail recipe with profound literary themes, making it a must-read for both literature lovers and cocktail enthusiasts alike. ## Description A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning. Review: Excellent service - This is one of those books that should be part of anyone's collection especially anyone who lives or is thinking about living in Spain. It is brutal but fascinating. I have read it before but lost my copy; it can be horrifying to read in places and in others it like a description of some kind of ballet. Oxy Moron Review: Bull & Grace - ”Fiesta” is the one I favour most of all the Hemingway novels, because it is young at heart and old in wisdom. This choice of mine is problematic since it is in spite of my deprecation of bullfighting, and bullfighting is a subject matter that is a substantial part of the book. Hemingway's foremost objection and argument in ”Death in the Afternoon” to all opponents of bullfighting is that they are in no position to be against it unless they have experienced a live corrida performance, and that any dismission of his argument mainly stem from ignorance. Once I have been to a bullfight. Once I have been standing on the yellow sands in the middle of the deserted red-painted bullring in Ronda, ”the cradle of bullfight” - feeling the magic. Now I have read his beautifully titled and highly knowledgeable book on bullfighting. My experience has left me still against. The focus point of bullfighting today is probably the ethics of its practise which nowadays, of course, is even more controversial than in the 1930s when the book was written. The book contains disappointingly little regular philosophical discussion aroud the moral issue. Instead the book is a mighty exhaustive manual of the terminology, technicalities and choreography of what Hemingway emphasizes is bullfighting as an art form, bordering on religion, and not a sport, at all. Qualities in bullfighting that fascinates Hemingway are bravery and pride, in bull as well as matador, or man, the word he prefers using, and he goes to great lengths describing, very interestingly, those two virtues. If Man has a good day and realizes to play with the bull in a way that displays grace, valor, force, emotion, intelligence, wisdom, exquisiteness, intensity, passion, spirituality, purity, he brings an orgasmic ecstasy to the aficionados and spectators who feel the bullring and the earth move, they have been ”there”, they are witnesses of a miracle. I would say that in bullfighting the bull is regarded as a catharsis element, a living creature is killed under torturing circumstances and treated as a vehicle, or instrument, for personal excitement. The more so called beautiful bravery from the fighting bull, the more of its prestanda, the more the bull is seen as a perfect art object. But making the bull a sacrfice for human's needs and pleasure is severely an objectifying of the animal. The bull's natural instinct is to fight, so what the corrida does, Hemingway seems to mean, is just bringing out the bull in the bull, so to speak, the fighting makes the bull maximum bull – and that is regarded as a good way to die, in the sunsetting Afternoon. The bull is saved through the poetry and art of the act. Art demands sacrifice, it's a truth, but consequently Hemingway's passion for bullfighting puts esthetics before ethics, a view which seems repellent to me, and not so as a lover of animals, but as a lover of arts. That Hemingway is omitting a probe into moral aspects about bullfighting, is perhaps not unexpected. More surprising might be that the book doesn't contain much historical background to bullfighting in terms of bull mythology and symbolism. Bullfighting is a tradition from prehistoric times in the Mediterranean, where bulls have been sacrificed in different cults, like the Cretensian and the Mithras, and bulls have symbolized both male strength and virility, as well as its opposite, subjugation of masculinity and animality, under the dominance of different moon-godesses. Hemingway's credo in life was above all ”Grace under pressure”. You have to go to his biography to get a full understanding of his Grace with a capital ”G”. Why he is indulging in an orgy of bullfighting technicalities and says nothing about bull mythology and cult, has probably something to do with the deep hidden psychological roots of his passion; the whole bullfighting manual is a shield to protect his bare feelings. The omitting is of course also to give credit to his classical new thinking in style of writing, omitting what's below the surface, only expressing one eight of the iceberg. He avoids moral aspects and psychological motives because he has never been an aficionado of explicit didactic theorizing and intellectualism. Like he says himself: ”horseshit, that is unsoundness in an abstract conversation or, indeed, any overmetaphysical tendency in speech”. Bullfighting is mainly about death – and learning to face death without flinching. To succeed in this ordeal is to have Honor. To see Bull and Man in the red-painted bullring united in a graceful and dangerous Natural pass is to Hemingway the most delivering vision imagined. The Man playing close, close with death gives to the spectator a feeling of immortality. The difficulty and exclusive skill of killing beautifully, is a justification of killing the animal that sublimates and ennobles the Bull, Matador and spectator. To kill is the same as challenge existence and thus overcome death, which is followed by the sense of Pride, which is bullfighting in essence. There are good singers and there are bad ones, the same goes for matadors. If they just go through the motions and don't visualize the soul of the true bullfight they are simply dayworkers or butchers, not dignified killers. It is interesting to meet Heminway as a writer of documentary facts, or journalism, and not fiction. His structure and composition is in ”Death in the Afternoon” far from as tight as in the novels and short stories, but much more rhapsodic and fragmentary. Although his supreme handling of fiction appears in this book too. ”Hundreds” of matadors are passing by, each one in a miniature portrait, everyone originally depicted without any signs of repetition narratively; that is skillful and vigorous writing, and very admirable. His snapshots of the picturesque towns of Spain, like Aranjuez with its tree-shaded streets, Ronda with its setting in a dramatic and romantic landscape, and many more, have got his characteristic sensual and restrained language. Hemingway is an ardent aficionado and brilliant connaisseur of bullfighting and his knowledge is knock-out impressive. His views on it as an art form could be alluring, since it is pure poetry and intensely beautifully described in his perspective. But no, even so, it's primitive and wrong. Bullfighting is a relic from an age when both humans and animals were sacrificed in cults. To justify a sacrifice of a human being is unthinkable as of today, the same should be a fact about animals. Life is not logic. Still, bullfighting belong at the museum, whether at the Anthropology or Ethnology museum could be discussed. Nature or culture? Life is not logic. ## Features - ARROW ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 38,670 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 161 in Travel Writing (Books) 209 in Essays, Journals & Letters 500 in The Performing Arts | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 774 Reviews | ## Images ![Death In The Afternoon - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61huQh8EXFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent service *by O***N on 1 October 2009* This is one of those books that should be part of anyone's collection especially anyone who lives or is thinking about living in Spain. It is brutal but fascinating. I have read it before but lost my copy; it can be horrifying to read in places and in others it like a description of some kind of ballet. Oxy Moron ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bull & Grace *by P***A on 11 July 2018* ”Fiesta” is the one I favour most of all the Hemingway novels, because it is young at heart and old in wisdom. This choice of mine is problematic since it is in spite of my deprecation of bullfighting, and bullfighting is a subject matter that is a substantial part of the book. Hemingway's foremost objection and argument in ”Death in the Afternoon” to all opponents of bullfighting is that they are in no position to be against it unless they have experienced a live corrida performance, and that any dismission of his argument mainly stem from ignorance. Once I have been to a bullfight. Once I have been standing on the yellow sands in the middle of the deserted red-painted bullring in Ronda, ”the cradle of bullfight” - feeling the magic. Now I have read his beautifully titled and highly knowledgeable book on bullfighting. My experience has left me still against. The focus point of bullfighting today is probably the ethics of its practise which nowadays, of course, is even more controversial than in the 1930s when the book was written. The book contains disappointingly little regular philosophical discussion aroud the moral issue. Instead the book is a mighty exhaustive manual of the terminology, technicalities and choreography of what Hemingway emphasizes is bullfighting as an art form, bordering on religion, and not a sport, at all. Qualities in bullfighting that fascinates Hemingway are bravery and pride, in bull as well as matador, or man, the word he prefers using, and he goes to great lengths describing, very interestingly, those two virtues. If Man has a good day and realizes to play with the bull in a way that displays grace, valor, force, emotion, intelligence, wisdom, exquisiteness, intensity, passion, spirituality, purity, he brings an orgasmic ecstasy to the aficionados and spectators who feel the bullring and the earth move, they have been ”there”, they are witnesses of a miracle. I would say that in bullfighting the bull is regarded as a catharsis element, a living creature is killed under torturing circumstances and treated as a vehicle, or instrument, for personal excitement. The more so called beautiful bravery from the fighting bull, the more of its prestanda, the more the bull is seen as a perfect art object. But making the bull a sacrfice for human's needs and pleasure is severely an objectifying of the animal. The bull's natural instinct is to fight, so what the corrida does, Hemingway seems to mean, is just bringing out the bull in the bull, so to speak, the fighting makes the bull maximum bull – and that is regarded as a good way to die, in the sunsetting Afternoon. The bull is saved through the poetry and art of the act. Art demands sacrifice, it's a truth, but consequently Hemingway's passion for bullfighting puts esthetics before ethics, a view which seems repellent to me, and not so as a lover of animals, but as a lover of arts. That Hemingway is omitting a probe into moral aspects about bullfighting, is perhaps not unexpected. More surprising might be that the book doesn't contain much historical background to bullfighting in terms of bull mythology and symbolism. Bullfighting is a tradition from prehistoric times in the Mediterranean, where bulls have been sacrificed in different cults, like the Cretensian and the Mithras, and bulls have symbolized both male strength and virility, as well as its opposite, subjugation of masculinity and animality, under the dominance of different moon-godesses. Hemingway's credo in life was above all ”Grace under pressure”. You have to go to his biography to get a full understanding of his Grace with a capital ”G”. Why he is indulging in an orgy of bullfighting technicalities and says nothing about bull mythology and cult, has probably something to do with the deep hidden psychological roots of his passion; the whole bullfighting manual is a shield to protect his bare feelings. The omitting is of course also to give credit to his classical new thinking in style of writing, omitting what's below the surface, only expressing one eight of the iceberg. He avoids moral aspects and psychological motives because he has never been an aficionado of explicit didactic theorizing and intellectualism. Like he says himself: ”horseshit, that is unsoundness in an abstract conversation or, indeed, any overmetaphysical tendency in speech”. Bullfighting is mainly about death – and learning to face death without flinching. To succeed in this ordeal is to have Honor. To see Bull and Man in the red-painted bullring united in a graceful and dangerous Natural pass is to Hemingway the most delivering vision imagined. The Man playing close, close with death gives to the spectator a feeling of immortality. The difficulty and exclusive skill of killing beautifully, is a justification of killing the animal that sublimates and ennobles the Bull, Matador and spectator. To kill is the same as challenge existence and thus overcome death, which is followed by the sense of Pride, which is bullfighting in essence. There are good singers and there are bad ones, the same goes for matadors. If they just go through the motions and don't visualize the soul of the true bullfight they are simply dayworkers or butchers, not dignified killers. It is interesting to meet Heminway as a writer of documentary facts, or journalism, and not fiction. His structure and composition is in ”Death in the Afternoon” far from as tight as in the novels and short stories, but much more rhapsodic and fragmentary. Although his supreme handling of fiction appears in this book too. ”Hundreds” of matadors are passing by, each one in a miniature portrait, everyone originally depicted without any signs of repetition narratively; that is skillful and vigorous writing, and very admirable. His snapshots of the picturesque towns of Spain, like Aranjuez with its tree-shaded streets, Ronda with its setting in a dramatic and romantic landscape, and many more, have got his characteristic sensual and restrained language. Hemingway is an ardent aficionado and brilliant connaisseur of bullfighting and his knowledge is knock-out impressive. His views on it as an art form could be alluring, since it is pure poetry and intensely beautifully described in his perspective. But no, even so, it's primitive and wrong. Bullfighting is a relic from an age when both humans and animals were sacrificed in cults. To justify a sacrifice of a human being is unthinkable as of today, the same should be a fact about animals. Life is not logic. Still, bullfighting belong at the museum, whether at the Anthropology or Ethnology museum could be discussed. Nature or culture? Life is not logic. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Classic *by A***M on 22 June 2014* Read again after a number of years. Still has the power to pull you in to the world of bullfighting in its golden age at the time of Hemingway. 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