The first English-language text to contain the word cojones as a metaphor for bravery is Ernest Hemingway's 1932 book on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon.
Bullfighting would become a major motif in Hemingway's writing, appearing in The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon.
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His cultural study of Spain, Virgin Spain (1926), was mocked and ridiculed by Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon (1932).