The Undefeated Hemingway

Implications of Narrative Perspective in Hemingway's 'The Undefeated'

Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan., 1972), pp. 1-15 (15 pages)

The short stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Scribner. Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide) Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Scribner. Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide) Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, The Short Stories of Ernest.

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Biography of Ernest Hemingway 2. The Story of “The Undefeated“ III Main Part 1. The Main Theme 2. The Characterisation of Manuel Garcia 3. Pecularities of Hemingway’ s Style in “The Undefeated” 4. The Bullfight as Subject Matter 5. “The Undefeated“ as a Model for Hemingway’ s “The Old Man and the Sea“ IV Results. “Le Torero and ‘The Undefeated’: Hemingway’s Foray into Analytical Cubism.”Studies in Short Fiction 30 (1993): 35-43. Ernest Hemingway MEN WITHOUT WOMEN 6 THE UNDEFEATED MANUEL GARCIA climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana’s office. He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Manuel, standing in the hallway, felt there was someone in the room. He felt it through the door. “Retana,” he said, listening. There was no answer. Ernest Hemingway's short story 'The Undefeated' was first published in 1927 in his second collection Men Without Women. Also in this collection are the more popular stories 'The Killers'.

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Undefeated Book Summary

'The Undefeated' is a short story by Ernest Hemingway featured in Men Without Women. The main character, Manuel Garcia, is a bullfighter who recently got out of the hospital and is now looking for work. After an old promoter, Retana, hires him for a fight on the following evening, he enlists the help of an old friend to be his picador. Although Zurito, his picador, strongly discourages Manuel, Manuel proceeds and is injured while fighting his first bull of the night.

The Undefeated Hemingway


Works of Ernest Hemingway
Novels
  • The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • To Have and Have Not (1937)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • True at First Light (1999 memoir)
Short stories
  • 'Big Two-Hearted River' (1925)
  • 'Indian Camp' (1925)
  • 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife' (1925)
  • 'The Battler' (1925)
  • 'A Very Short Story' (1925)
  • 'Soldier's Home' (1925)
  • 'Cat in the Rain' (1925)
  • 'The End of Something' (1925)
  • 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' (1926)
  • 'A Canary for One' (1926)
  • 'Fifty Grand' (1927)
  • 'Hills Like White Elephants' (1927)
  • 'The Killers' (1927)
  • 'The Undefeated' (1927)
  • 'Che Ti Dice La Patria?' (1927)
  • 'In Another Country' (1927)
  • 'Fathers and Sons' (1932)
  • 'A Day's Wait' (1933)
  • 'The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio' (1933)
  • 'A Way You'll Never Be' (1933)
  • 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' (1936)
  • 'The Capital of the World' (1936)
  • 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' (1936)
Short story
collections
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
  • In Our Time (1925)
  • Men Without Women (1927)
  • Winner Take Nothing (1933)
  • The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
  • The Essential Hemingway (1947)
  • The Hemingway Reader (1953)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
  • The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
  • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)
Plays
  • The Fifth Column (play) (1938)
Poetry
  • 88 Poems (1979)
Non-fiction
  • Death in the Afternoon (1932)
  • Green Hills of Africa (1935)
  • Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962)
  • A Moveable Feast (1964)
Posthumous
  • A Moveable Feast (1964)
  • By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
  • The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
  • Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970)
  • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)
  • The Dangerous Summer (1985)
  • Dateline: Toronto (1985)
  • The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • The Complete Poems
  • True at First Light (1999)
  • Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
  • On Paris (On) (2008)
  • The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
Film adaptations
  • A Farewell to Arms (1932)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • The Killers (1946)
  • The Macomber Affair (1947)
  • The Breaking Point (1950)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
  • The Killers (1956)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1957)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1957)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
  • Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
  • The Killers (1964)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)
  • Islands in the Stream (1977)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1984)
  • In Love and War (1996)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
Related
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)