Ernest Hemingway ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers; like Mark Twain, Hemingway is one of those rare authors most people know about, whether they have read him or not. The difference is that Twain, with his white suit, ubiquitous cigar, and easy wit, survives in the public imagination as a basically, lovable figure, while the deeply imprinted image of Hemingway as rugged and macho has been much less universally admired, for all his fame. Hemingway has been regarded less as a writer dedicated to his craft than as a man of action who happened to be afflicted with genius. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1954, Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as "a globe-trotting expert on bullfights, booze, women, wars, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and courage." Hemingway did in fact address all those subjects in his books, and he acquired his expertise through well-reported acts of participation as well as of observation; by going to all the wars of his time, hunting and fishing for great beasts, marrying four times, occasionally getting into fistfights, drinking too much, and becoming, in the end, a worldwide celebrity recognizable for his signature beard and challenging physical pursuits.
发表于2025-01-21
The Old Man and the Sea 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
An old man, a small skiff (in fact a female one as Mr Hemingway use "her") and the sea. The story began under the mist of dawn. Without catching any fish within 84 days, the old man was going to break his previous record of 87 days soon under the tough sit...
评分虽然还未读过此译者的这部作品,但至少作为一个普通读者来看,《灿烂千阳》和《追风筝的人》翻译的并不差,至少符合了国外书评所评价的不少特征,算得上是用并不华丽的语言平和地讲述了一个充满遗憾和悲伤的故事,在整本书中也没有觉得有因翻译导致的拗口蹩脚之感。 ...
评分① 到底文学是怎么回事儿 上回我们跟大家讲海明威写《老人与海》这本书多少有点“夫子自道”。因为在这之前,他已经被认为再也写不出好小说了,尤其他上一本小说是饱遭劣评。但是,这本小说出来之后他大获成功! 美国当年很有名的杂志《生活》周刊,有一整期杂志把这篇小...
评分没有被打败的人 赵松 一九五二年九月一日那一期的美国《生活》周刊的封面人物,是厄内斯特-海明威。那期杂志全文刊发了他的新作《老人与海》。那张封面照里,海明威的神情有些疲倦、略带轻蔑,就像刚从战场归来的上校,刚梳理好花白渐稀的头发,紧闭嘴唇,下巴明显内收,而冷眼...
评分曾慥的《高斋诗话》里有这么一个段子:少游自会稽入见东坡。东坡问作何词。少游举 “小楼连苑横空,下窥绣彀雕鞍骤。”东坡曰:“十三个字只说得一个人骑马楼前过。”读到这个故事的时候,恰好我手边正好放着一些海明威的作品。当时有过这样的想法,如果海明威来做苏轼的学生,...
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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honour to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such post-war 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 favourite 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
虽然还是不太懂= =。。。
评分"fight them,"he said. "i'll fight them until i die."
评分其实我不喜欢这个故事。。及这个故事背后的故事
评分英文原版比中文更让人觉得震撼
评分有力的动词。精干的叙事。读书的时候,脑子里不断回响的是曹操那句:烈士暮年,壮心不已。
The Old Man and the Sea 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书