Title
Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and the Fear of Death in War
Document Type
Internet Resource
Annotation
Presents Death in the Afternoon as Hemingway’s therapeutic counsel to violent, inexplicable trauma, especially during war, by demonstrating the naturalness, inevitability, and goodness of suffering and death via the tragic bullfight. Argues that the ritualistic nature of the bullring makes unfathomable suffering more tenable and allows for necessary reflection when confronting death.
Published in
WLA: War, Literature, and the Arts
Volume
26
Date
2014
COinS
Citation
Barker, Christopher. “Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and the Fear of Death in War.” WLA: War, Literature, and the Arts 26 (2014). https://www.wlajournal.com/.