jueves, 14 de agosto de 2014

'Hemingway was a bullfight enthusiast for much of his life.

His time in Spain resulted in some of his greatest writing. “The Sun Also Rises” (1926) was inspired by a trip taken at the urging of Gertrude Stein, and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940) is based on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which Hemingway covered as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. References to bullfighting and matadors, also known as toreros, can be found in almost all of his Spain-based work.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author wrote two books of nonfiction about bullfighting: “Death in the Afternoon” (1932) and a posthumously published work, “The Dangerous Summer” (1985). In “Death in the Afternoon” he revealed that he named the fictional matador in “The Sun Also Rises” Pedro Romero, after an 18th-century torero born in Ronda, Spain, but that he based the character on one of his contemporaries, another bullfighter from Ronda known as Niño de Palma. In “The Dangerous Summer” Hemingway recounts his experience traveling Spain’s bullfighting circuit with Antonio Ordoñez, Niño’s son, in 1959"

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