死在午后 (Death In the Afternoon)

海明威在1930年曾发表过一篇论西班牙斗牛的的长篇文章，以此为基础，两年后他出版了这本"斗牛专书"《死在午后》。在书中他对斗牛做了极为详尽而深入的介绍和论述，指出斗牛士在斗牛场上的生死表演具有强烈的感染力，"能使人陶醉，能让人有不朽之感，能使他入迷"，"这入迷虽则短暂，却如同灵魂离开躯体似的深刻"。并从斗牛引申开去，论及小说创作的理论和具体原则，以及他对死亡的深刻见解。(In 1930, Hemingway published a long article on the Spanish bullfight, based on this, two years later, he published the "bull book" Death in the Afternoon. In the book, he made a very detailed and in-depth introduction and discussion of bullfighting, and pointed out that the matador in the bullfight on the death of a strong performance: it can make people intoxicated, having a sense of immortality and make his ecstasy. This fascinating though short, but is like the soul leaves the body. It extends from the bullfight to novel creation theory and specific principles, and his deep sense of death.)