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Title

The Birth of Hemingway’s Afición: Madrid and "The First Bullfight I Ever Saw"

Document Type

Article

Citation

Mandel, Miriam B. “The Birth of Hemingway’s Afición: Madrid and ‘The First Bullfight I Ever Saw.’” Journal of Modern Literature 23, no. 1 (1999): 127-42.

Annotation

Describes the two historical bullfights that Hemingway conflated in the account of his first bullfight in the Toronto Star essay “Bullfighting a Tragedy” and later Death in the Afternoon. Mandel argues that recovering the actual details of Hemingway’s first bullfight is important because his “immediate, intense response to that event sparked his life-long involvement with Spain” and resulted in “some of the best American writing of this century.”

Published in

Journal of Modern Literature

Volume

23

Issue

1

Date

1999

Pages

127-142

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