Death in the Afternoon
Book description
Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death'
This is Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. Here are the sights,…
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1 author picked Death in the Afternoon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Officially a book about bullfighting, with so many digressions that they become the book, the finest such sections delve deeply into the art and practice of writing, most extraordinarily in the thrilling, moving final pages. It is also in this great book that for the first time in print Hemingway articulates his principle that you can leave something out of what you are writing if you know you are leaving it out.
From Carl's list on learning to write.
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