Title
"At Five in the Afternoon": Toward a Poetics of Duende in Bataille and Hemingway
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Explores the importance of death and pure emotion to the Spanish culture, and its implications for artistic creation in the writings of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, French thinker Georges Bataille, and Hemingway, particularly in Death in the Afternoon and The Dangerous Summer. Richter discusses the importance of duende, a Spanish spirit associated with anguish and death, to the authors’ passionate representations of death in the bullring in which death heightens the experience of living.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
113-127
COinS
Citation
Eby, Carl P. and Mark Cirino, eds. Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.