Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations

398 Pages·2008·1.36 MB·English

by  Miriam B. Mandel

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Originally commissioned for Life magazine in 1960, The Dangerous Summer is Ernest DD
Hemingway’s chronicle of a bullfi ghting season in Spain in the late 1950s. Nearly thirty EE
years before, Hemingway had written on the subject of bullfi ghting in his 1932 book LL
Death in the Afternoon. While the earlier work was hailed by many critics, The Danger-
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most neglected book.
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In Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations, Miriam Mandel GG
examines the historical, literary, biographical, technical, and cultural backgrounds that
underlie Hemingway’s last narrative, particularly those elements associated with bullfi ght- WW
ing, a topic unfamiliar to most modern readers. These annotations offer detailed informa-
tion about the animals, people, and cultural constructs discussed in The Dangerous Sum-
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mer. In the comprehensive introduction, Mandel discusses the origins and development
of bullfi ghting, provides the background of Spanish events in the twentieth century, and YY
reviews Hemingway’s lifelong involvement with Spain.
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Along with her earlier book, Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon: The Complete Annota-
tions (Scarecrow Press, 2002), this volume provides all the historic, literary, and taurine
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background needed to understand the large body of Hemingway’s fi ction set in Spain or
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dealing with Spanish topics.
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Miriam B. Mandel, former senior lecturer for the Department of English and G
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American Literatures of Tel Aviv University, has published articles on Jane Austen, Joseph R R
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For orders and information please contact the publisher
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Hemingway’s
The Dangerous Summer
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Dust jacket of the first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer(1985).
Photograph prepared by the Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, and repro-
duced by kind permission of Scribner’s, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing
Division, and Paul Bacon.
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Hemingway’s
The Dangerous Summer
The Complete Annotations
Miriam B. Mandel
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham, Maryland • Toronto • Plymouth, UK
2008
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SCARECROWPRESS, INC.
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Copyright ©2008 by Miriam B. Mandel
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Mandel, Miriam B.
Hemingway’s The dangerous summer : the complete annotations / Miriam B. Mandel.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961. Dangerous summer. 2. Hemingway, Ernest,
1899–1961—Travel—Spain. 3. Spain—Description and travel. 4. Bullfights—Spain.
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To my daughters,
Naomi and Jessica
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“I wanted to . . . write the truth, the absolute truth, about his [Antonio Or-
dóñez’s] work and his place in bullfighting.”
—Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer, p. 82
“With Hemingway, there is no such thing as non-fiction; there are simply
degrees of fiction.”
—Michael Reynolds, “Hemingway’s ‘My Old Man’:
Turf Days in Paris,” p. 105
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
User’s Guide xiii
The Entries xiv
Text of the Entries xv
Organization of the Material xvii
Names xviii
Taurine Statistics xx
The Functions of Place Names xxi
Other Hemingway Texts xxv
Introduction 1
Change, Nostalgia, and the Law 1
Bulls and Bull Breeding 8
The Bullfighter 20
The Bullring 31
The Corrida 37
Impresarios, Apoderados, and the Rise of los Trusts 53
The Facts of 1959: The Taurine Season 58
The Facts of 1959: Hemingway’s Situation 62
Backgrounds: The Conception of The Dangerous Summer 63
Production: The Writing and Editing of The Dangerous Summer 65
Result: The Bias of The Dangerous Summer 68
The Importance of The Dangerous Summer 73
Annotations to The Dangerous Summer 77
Notes 265
Works Consulted 321
Index 345
About the Author 370
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