The Old Man and the Sea

1. World famous book

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

The Old Man and the Sea, written by American writer Hemingway. "The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's masterpiece and a symbolic novel. The protagonist Santiago is an old fisherman. After many hardships and dangers, he caught "a big marlin weighing more than 1,500 pounds." However, the big marlin was eaten up by sharks, and Santiago only dragged it back. A fish skeleton.

Wonderful language of "The Old Man and the Sea":

1. Every day is a new day. Of course it's good to be lucky. But I would rather do it exactly. That way, when luck comes, you'll be prepared.

2. But then again, nothing is easy.

3. "But people are not born for failure," he said, "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated."

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"The Old Man and the Sea"

The manifestation of the invincible tough guy spirit in the history of literature

Really good works use life experience as their themes

Only the victory of the spirit can move us and make us shed tears for its tragedy

One of the 100 classics that influenced history

One of the 32 landmark books in American history 1

Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954

In 1986, the French "Reading" magazine recommended the ideal book collection

In 1952, Hemingway published his best book The work "The Old Man and the Sea". This is a treasure in the treasure house of world literature and a treasure in all Hemingway's creations.

The book sold astonishingly within 48 hours of its publication, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature that year. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature because of his "mastery of narrative art, prominently displayed in his recent work "The Old Man and the Sea"; and also because of his influence on contemporary style." "Every sentence and every paragraph must be written as concisely as possible." This was one of Hemingway's tenets in writing, which resulted in more of his works being adapted into films than any other winner. When he was announced as the winner of that year's Pulitzer Prize, critics unanimously praised him. "Man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." What Hemingway said in "The Old Man and the Sea" not only moved readers, but also conquered commentators.

The novel uses realistic techniques to show the graceful demeanor of the old fisherman Santiago under heavy pressure. This kind of spiritually invincible man has become one of the most famous "tough guy" images in the history of literature. . Regarding "The Old Man and the Sea", a work that has been translated into dozens of languages, Hemingway himself believed that "it is the best work that he can write in his life."

"The Old Man and the Sea" is an idyllic poem. The sea is the sea, not Byronic or Melvillean, just like Homer's writing; the writing is calm and moving, just like Homer's. poetry. A true artist neither symbolizes nor allegorizes - Hemingway was a true artist - but any true work of art can exude symbolism and allegory, and this one is short but not insignificant. The same goes for masterpieces.

--American art historian Berry Sun

Hemingway had a strong desire to impose his own views on things on us in order to create an image of a tough guy. …When he yearns for victory in his dreams, there must be complete victory, a great battle, and a happy ending.

--American writer Saul Bellow

People can fail, but they cannot be defeated. The outer body can accept torture, but the inner will is sacrosanct. Yes, this is the argument repeatedly emphasized in "The Old Man and the Sea". Real masters use the simplest language to express the most profound truths. Really good works use life experience as their themes. What "The Old Man and the Sea" depicts is the best portrait of Hemingway's life. Just like Hemingway said, "I have read it more than 200 times. Every time I read it, I gain something more, as if I finally got what I worked hard for in this life."

--Taiwan scholar Chen Renxiao

Hemingway's works unify the accuracy and simplicity of narrative, but the theme is extremely deeply imprinted in the readers' minds. "The Old Man and the Sea" is the most read Nobel Prize-winning work among Chinese readers and is Hemingway's classic.

--Young writer Li Pai

Unforgettable Hemingway

I am thinking that when a man lacks something in his bones, he will naturally think of Hemingway.

In the early 1980s, I started reading Hemingway. The novelty and surprise still make my heart tremble when I think about it, as fresh as before. From then on, Hemingway entered my reading field, and I read it frequently. For more than 20 years, the desire to read has never gone away.

The first thing I read was "The Old Man and the Sea".

As Hemingway himself said, "This is the best work I can write in my life." Before I finished reading the book, the image of the protagonist Santiago was engraved in my mind. This is a novel describing the struggle between man and nature. The old man fought hard at sea for two days and two nights, and finally only won an empty fish rack. The moral of the work is symbolic, the old man is still glorious despite his defeat. As the old man said: "Man is not born to be defeated. People can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated." I have always regarded this sentence as Hemingway's confession and as a sign of Hemingway's tough guy spirit. Over the years, this seems to have become a wise saying.

I have read several different versions of Hemingway’s biography and know that he was a writer who loved hunting and fishing. He visited the battlefields of the First and Second World Wars. He was hit by 237 pieces of shrapnel and received 57 stitches on his head. He suffered two plane crashes in Africa. Severe concussions caused his vision and health to deteriorate.

This is Hemingway. His experiences gave birth to his tough guy character. In his novels, themes such as boxing, bullfighting, hunting, fishing, and war appear repeatedly, all of which are symbols of power. Of course, there's also alcohol, violence, sex, loneliness and death.

Hemingway taught me how important human experience is. This is priceless wealth. No one can underestimate their own experience.

Today’s men naturally have no chance and cannot achieve the kind of life Hemingway lived. Therefore, people once issued a call to "find a man". A strong, resilient masculinity that has become increasingly rare. The meaning of life lies in a spirit that dares to endure pain and despise death.

I think a writer’s fame does not lie in how much he writes, but in what unique creation he has. With his legendary life and the series of tough guy images he created, Hemingway established his position in world literature. Moreover, people can easily identify his voice among the group portraits of literary masters.

It is undeniable that consistent with Hemingway's tough guy spirit is his writing style with distinctive personal characteristics - concise and neat. He gave up irrelevant material, technical gimmicks, overflowing emotions, and poor descriptions. As the British writer O. Bates said: "With courage that no one has ever had, he cut off the 'tangled hair' attached to literature in English." It is said that he revised "The Old Man and the Sea" for 200 times. Many times, what could have been written as more than a thousand pages long ended up being a short novella of dozens of pages. If it's still over a thousand pages, it's not Hemingway. His name will also be erased from the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The charm of Hemingway is that he purified the writing style at that time and set off a "literary revolution". For this reason, he was regarded as a model by many writers of his generation and later, and he attracted the attention of generations of readers around the world. Its influence is like spring breeze and rain, which lasts for a long time.

Is Hemingway immortal? I think it is difficult to find another writer like Hemingway. His experiences and works make me read them again and again. Because Hemingway is an endless topic.

Hemingway

On July 2, 1961, Hemingway, who was famous in the world of literature, ended his life with his own shotgun. The whole world was shocked and people lamented the tragedy of this giant. The American people even mourned the death of this important American writer.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist. Hemingway was born into a doctor's family on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, USA. His father loved hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities, and his mother loved literature, all of which had a great impact on Hemingway's future life and creation. After graduating from high school, Hemingway worked as an intern reporter for the "Star" newspaper in Kansas in the southwestern United States for 6 months. This newspaper requires news reports to be concise and clear. Hemingway received good training at the Star.

After recovery, Hemingway was based in Paris as a reporter for the "Star" in Toronto, Canada. He has a strong interest in creation and works as a reporter while writing novels. His creation was encouraged and guided by famous novelists at that time. In the past 10 years, he has published many works, the most famous of which is "The Sun Also Rises". "The Sun Also Rises" is Hemingway's first important novel. It is written about a group of young Americans living in France like Hemingway. After World War I, they lost their way forward. The war caused them great physical and psychological harm. They were very empty, distressed and melancholy. They wanted to make a difference, but the war made them mentally confused, and the intrigues of the society made them very disgusted. They could only live in sinking. The American writer Stein called them the "lost generation". This novel is a true portrayal of Hemingway's own life path and world view. Hemingway and the literary school he represented were also called the "Lost Generation."

After the outbreak of World War I, Hemingway, with an ardent desire to experience the war in person, joined the American Red Cross Field Service Corps and participated in the Italian battlefield.

After the war, Hemingway was awarded the Cross Medal, Silver Medal and Bravery Medal by the Italian government, and received the rank of lieutenant. Accompanying the honor are the 237 scars on his body and the demonic memory of the war that cannot be driven away.

In 1929, Hemingway's novels "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" are the best works of literature of the "Lost Generation". The protagonist of the novel, Henry, is an American young man who voluntarily came to the Italian battlefield to join the war. While injured, he fell in love with Catherine, a British female nurse. Henry worked hard, but was mistaken for a German spy during a retreat and was almost shot. He had no choice but to jump into a river to escape and decided to break away from the war. In order to escape the pursuit of the military police, Henry and Catherine fled to the neutral country of Switzerland. There, they lived a happy and peaceful life. But soon, Catherine died in childbirth and the baby also died of suffocation. Henry was left alone in the world. He was heartbroken and wanted to cry without tears. The novel describes the love between Henry and Catherine in the context of the war, and profoundly points out that their happiness and love were pushed to the abyss of destruction by the war.

In 1928, Hemingway left Paris and lived in Florida and Cuba in the United States, living a quiet pastoral life. He often went hunting, fishing, and watching bullfights. But soon, World War II broke out, and Hemingway could no longer live a peaceful life. From 1937 to 1938, he traveled to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent. During World War II, he served as a journalist and participated in the liberation of Paris.

After the Pacific War broke out at the end of 1941, Hemingway immediately converted his yacht into a patrol boat to detect the actions of German submarines and provide intelligence for the elimination of the enemy. In 1944, Hemingway accompanied the US military to Europe for an interview. He was seriously injured in a plane crash, but after recovering, he still went behind enemy lines to conduct interviews. After World War II, he received a bronze medal.

In 1940, Hemingway published the anti-fascist novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" with the Spanish Civil War as the background. The work describes the protagonist, American young man Joe Dun, who volunteers to participate in the Spanish people's anti-fascist struggle and is ordered to blow up a strategic bridge at a designated time with the cooperation of a mountain guerrilla group. Jordon blew up the bridge and sniped the enemy alone while being seriously wounded. Death awaited him. Qiao Dun had a high sense of justice and responsibility. He was honored and proud that he could sacrifice his life in the anti-fascist struggle. This work is one of the most thoughtful works in Hemingway's middle period. It overcomes and gets rid of the emotions of loneliness, confusion and sadness to a considerable extent, integrates individuals into society, and shows the noble spirit of dedicating oneself to a just cause.

In 1952, Hemingway published the novella "The Old Man and the Sea": The old fisherman Santiago did not catch any fish at sea for 84 consecutive days. At first, a boy named Manolin went to sea with him, but after 40 days without catching any fish, the child was arranged by his parents to go to another boat because they believed that the child would not have good luck if he followed the old man. On the 85th day, the old man rowed the boat very far early in the morning. He unexpectedly caught a marlin bigger than the boat. The old man struggled with the fish for two days and finally struck it. But the injured fish left a fishy trail on the sea, attracting countless sharks to fight for it. The old man struggled with the sharks, but when he returned to the harbor, only a huge skeleton of the marlin was left, and the old man was exhausted. He fell headlong onto the land. The child comes to see the old man and thinks that Santiago has not been defeated. That afternoon, Santiago fell asleep in the hut, and in his dream he saw the lion. "A person is not born to be defeated. You can eliminate him, but you can't defeat him." This is Santiago's life belief, and it is also the thought that the author wants to express in "The Old Man and the Sea". Through the image of Santiago, the author passionately praises the indestructible spiritual power displayed by human beings in the face of hardships. The child is preparing to go to sea again with the old man, and he must learn all the "skills" of the old man, which symbolizes that the "invincible" spirit of mankind will be passed down from generation to generation.

Santiago is the symbol of the perfect person advocated by Hemingway: strong, generous, kind, and loving. Even if he failed in the arena of life and faced an irreversible fate, he still He is a strong man in spirit and a "tough guy". "Tough guy" is a frequent theme in Hemingway's works and a common character in his works. Despite the tremendous pressure from the outside world and the blows of misfortune, they remained strong and unyielding, marching forward courageously, and even looked down upon death. Although they failed, they maintained human dignity and courage, and had the demeanor of a winner.

Hemingway created diligently throughout his life. The first thing you do when you get up in the morning is write. When he was writing, he also had a habit that ordinary people didn't have, which was to write while standing. He said: "I write while standing, and standing on one foot. The posture I adopt puts me in a state of tension, forcing me to express my thoughts as briefly as possible."

In the 1930s and 1940s, he created the image of anti-fascist warriors who got rid of confusion and pessimism and fought bravely and fearlessly for the interests of the people in "The Fifth Column" and the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls". In the 1950s, he created a "tough guy image" represented by Santiago who "can destroy him, but just can't defeat him" (representative work "The Old Man and the Sea" 1950). Hemingway is a spiritual monument to the American nation.

The 1920s was the early period of Hemingway's literary creation. He wrote "In Our Time", "Spring Tide", "Man Without Women" and the novels "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Sun Also Rises". A Farewell to Arms" and other works.

During this period, the Western world was sinking into the wasteland that Eliot saw behind the collapse of society. The novel "The Sun Also Rises" is about the life scenes of a group of young people living in Europe after the war and the profoundness of their spiritual world. change. The protagonist of the novel, Jack Barnes, is an American journalist whose sexual ability was destroyed by the war. He fell in love with a British nurse, Brett Ashley, who also fell in love with him, but they could not be together.

An American writer Robert Cohen, a man with many false and romantic fantasies about life, also fell in love with Brett, but she did not like him. This group of young people who have gone through many vicissitudes of life wandered around the European continent after the war, doing nothing all day long, gathering together to drink, quarrel or fight. The war took away their loved ones and left them with physical and mental trauma. They were extremely disgusted with the war, had doubts about justice and traditional values, and felt tired, confused and depressed about life. The novel denounces the war from a unique perspective and has an anti-war color. The novel describes the confusion of a generation and has become a representative work of the "Lost Generation" literary genre.

"A Farewell to Arms" (also translated as "Battlefield Dreams") is Hemingway's masterpiece. Taking the anti-imperialist war as the theme, he revealed the historical reasons for the emergence of the "lost generation" and accused the war of destroying people's ideals and happiness, harming people's souls, and causing millions of innocent lives to be ruined. This work reveals the basic characteristics of Hemingway's prose style and "modern narrative art". The plot of the work is simple and the artistic conception is pure, the language is unpretentious, the sentences are short and concise, and the description of the environment achieves a blend of scenes.

In the 1940s, he wrote "The Green Mountains of Africa" ??and "The Snow of Kilimanjaro" based on his experiences and impressions in Africa, and also published "The Short-lived Happiness of Francis Mabekan" . In 1932, he published "Death in the Afternoon", adhering to the American architect Rodwig's famous saying "the less, the more", which made the work more refined, shortened the distance between the work and the readers, and put forward the "iceberg principle" , only expresses one-eighth of things, making the work substantial, implicit and thought-provoking.

After World War II, Hemingway entered his later period of creation. His representative work is "The Old Man and the Sea". Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for his courage in the novel "in a real world full of violence and death". The reason for the Nobel Prize in Literature is: "for his proficiency in the art of narrative, prominently displayed in his recent work "The Old Man and the Sea," and also for his influence on contemporary style." For this praise, Hemingway Well deserved. Hemingway's life's creations have left a glorious page in the history of modern literature. He used his own experience to reveal the hypocrisy of those in power and the cruelty of reality, portraying the confusion of the younger generation in the United States. His works are filled with love for the working people, and he makes realism open and inclusive in exploring ways of artistic creation. Got a new brilliance!

After winning the award, Hemingway suffered from a variety of diseases, which caused him great physical and mental pain. He was unable to create any more influential works, which made him mentally depressed and developed a negative and pessimistic mood. Finally he freed himself by committing suicide. This is also a pursuit of Hemingway's "tough guy spirit".

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Tough guy - Hemingway style tough guy

There has never been a writer in China Being able to create a tough guy style like Hemingway's characters also creates a lack of masculinity in our nation. The people of the Central Plains have grown up under a history of humiliation for a long time. They have been ruled by ethnic minorities and have been dominated by most of the great powers in the world. Bullying Confucianism. The key is that there is no national spirit like a tough guy. Europeans call it a tough guy, and the Japanese call it Bushido spirit. So, I think boys should watch at least one of Hemingway's works.

2. Movies

The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

Director:

Aleksandr Petrov

Starring:

Gordon Pinsent

Rentaro Mikuni

Kevin Delaye

Type: animation/short film

Duration: 20 min / Sweden: 22 min (Uppsala International Short Film Festival)

Country/Region: Canada/Japan/Russia

Dialogue Language: English/French

Distribution Company: Gébéka Films

Release date: July 22, 1999 Australia

Official website: Ogden Entertainment

Plot summary: The film describes an old fisherman who longs to catch a big fish. After waiting and struggling on the sea for many times, my wish finally came true.