Bullfighting And Tragedy

In 1923 Ernst Hemigway went to Spain , where he was introduced to bullfighting.
Death In The Afternoon was Hemingway’s tribute to bullfights. He often referred to and admire the crazy gesture in the face of death and in the bullfight he had an opportunity to contemplate that. For Hemingway the Matadores were living héroes. All his work is a dialog with death. All his Works are tragedies. Their main characters always die . An is this tragical view of existence what explains his passion for bullfighting. Bullfights are real tragedies where the actors really die. Man and humanity are placed at death as the bull and bullfigther are . The world is an arena where you can only survive fighting.