• in our time, chapter 16: "Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand"

  • Nov 29 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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in our time, chapter 16: "Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand"

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  • Welcome to the sixteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.

    In this episode, Maera is gored and dies in a masterfully cinematic way. We explore Hemingway's description of the bullfighter's death and speculate about why Hemingway decided to kill off his character "Maera" when the real bullfighter was still alive when in our time was published. We also draw comparisons between this vignette and other Hemingway works like "A Banal Story" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and consider its important placement in the later short story sequence of 1925.

    Join us as we explore in our time before it became In Our Time!
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