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Betöltés... The Old Man and the Sea (original 1952; edition 1952)írta: Ernest Hemingway (Szerző)
Mű adataiErnest Hemingway : Az öreg halász és a tenger (1952)
 dukefan86 | May 29, 2013 |  It's tedious and kind of blah, but Hemingway certainly has a way with words. There story is a bit lackluster on the surface, but the appeal of this piece is in the symbolism. (  ) Msmydaisy | May 4, 2013 | I can re-read the book anytime that kind of interesting it is.It inspired me a lot...!!! (  ) shofichoudhury | May 3, 2013 | I can re-read the book anytime that kind of interesting it is.It inspired me a lot...!!! ( ) shofichoudhury | May 3, 2013 | On Saturday I posted about the sixtieth anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Originally published in Life magazine, it sold more than five million copies in two days, went on to become a best-seller in book form, and is now considered a classic. It is a perennial fixture on high school reading lists all over the country. Confession time: I disliked The Old Man and the Sea when I read it in high school. An old man and a big fish? Come on. Neither could possibly be considered interesting subject matter for a fourteen or fifteen year old girl. In the end though, I did the required reading, complained bitterly about being bored, wrote the requisite essay, and promptly forgot all about it. Over the years, I have come to appreciate Hemingway - a handful of novels, some short stories, and, of course, A Moveable Feast - but never returned to The Old Man and the Sea. Saturday's anniversary seemed to be a sign. I pulled the book from the shelf and read, " He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat." Wait a minute. Is this really the same book I read in high school? How did I totally ignore the beauty in the simplicity of Hemingway's prose? Was I not touched by the boy's devotion to the old man? Did I miss the old man's respect for the fish, or have I simply forgotten? And what about the old man and his struggles to overcome physical limitations? Yes, The Old Man and the Sea is more than just a fishing story. And while it will never be considered a personal favorite, I have a newfound appreciation for this classic Hemingway novel. (  ) lakesidemusing | Apr 28, 2013 | nincs kritika | kritika hozzáadása Benne vanErnest Hemingway : Ernest Hemingway: Four Novels Ernest Hemingway : The Novels Of Ernest Hemingway . Ernest Hemingway : Five Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls (FOLIO SOCIETY) Ernest Hemingway : Three Novels: The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway : "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" ; "Fiesta" ; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" ; "Across the River and into the Trees" ; "The Old Man and the Sea" Has as a reference guide/companionHas as a student's study guide
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0684801221, Paperback)Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus (Amazonról letöltve Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:44:23 -0500) Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic. (summary from another edition) |
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I was surprised that this is such a short book and fast read. Now I want to go to the coast and watch fishing boats come in. (