Ernest Hemingway: The Capital of the World
5 min readMar 3, 2022
Madrid 1936/37
“Before, death came when you were old or sick, now it comes to all… who have no place to run or hide.”
Ernest Hemingway’s short story, The Capital of the World, was written in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, and is nomally about a young man, Paco, a waiter who lives in Madrid and wants to become a matador. But Hemingway’s story is about so much…