出版社: Arrow Books Ltd
出版年: 1994-8-18
页数: 112
定价: USD 10.35
装帧: Paperback
丛书: Ernest Hemingway (Arrow Classic)
ISBN: 9780099908401
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 ch...
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
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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 o...
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.
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海明威用短短几万字塑造了桑提亚哥的“硬汉形象”。这是一个饱经风霜的老人,他的人生毫不掩饰地刻画在他每一寸皮肤的褶皱上,他的历险毫无悬念地烙印在他身上的每一个伤疤里。我无法想象一个快要被岁月遗忘的老人曾耐心地度过漫长的八十七天才等来连续三个礼拜的大鱼。更难以... (展开)《老人与海》——人不是为失败而生的
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01 渔夫圣地亚哥已经八十四天没有捕到鱼了。这很糟糕。常陪他出海捕鱼的男孩,都被父母叫去随了别人。 圣地亚哥独自出海。他捕到了一条鱼。一条大马林鱼。不止一千五百磅重。是他钓过最大的一条鱼,整条小船都装不下。 圣地亚哥和大鱼斗了两天两夜,杀了它。把它挂在小船上。 ... (展开)不能瞎买,翻译者是孙致礼,这可以收藏!
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15 有用 虚弱橙 2013-05-20 22:04:14
在黑夜中,没有人欢呼甚至没有人注意到,可是他仍然梦见狮子。
9 有用 浮生若夢 2013-07-23 15:02:06
海明威怎么这么爱用and,快烦死了 @透析-2
0 有用 高地清风 2009-10-14 04:31:40
Thomas New
7 有用 盼芷 2015-09-19 23:09:32
老人與海大概是共生的,并共享那份尊嚴。
0 有用 杺樹 2013-01-25 13:00:19
英文更简洁有力一些吧
0 有用 噜噜鹿卤 2024-03-17 17:56:42 上海
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
0 有用 云汀 2024-03-12 08:49:03 广东
An old man with a resilient heart. He got nothing from fishing while he got everything in the journey.
0 有用 伊丽莎白 2024-03-04 07:33:07 上海
第一本看完的原文书,大海真的美妙
0 有用 Unicorn7102 2024-02-09 17:46:06 安徽
A man can be destroyed but not defeated. 原来人可以如此强大和坚韧,同时头脑清楚,灵活应变。
0 有用 追光_Morty 2024-02-01 23:45:28 湖北
老人一无所有,老人无所不有。在面对家徒四壁的周遭环境时,他还保持着绅士作风,仍怀善意;在面对海水的神秘与黑暗时,耐心等待时机,与大鱼斗智斗勇,用尽自己的最后一丝力气守护着自己的战果。或许幸运女神注定不会降临,或许他注定就会失败,或许到头来物质上一无所有,到最后躺在床上只能无限哀叹,再次梦到年轻时沙滩上的那只狮子……但战胜失败或许比得到奖品更重要,老人虽然陷入无限惆怅,但我想他始终是大海上那个无人能... 老人一无所有,老人无所不有。在面对家徒四壁的周遭环境时,他还保持着绅士作风,仍怀善意;在面对海水的神秘与黑暗时,耐心等待时机,与大鱼斗智斗勇,用尽自己的最后一丝力气守护着自己的战果。或许幸运女神注定不会降临,或许他注定就会失败,或许到头来物质上一无所有,到最后躺在床上只能无限哀叹,再次梦到年轻时沙滩上的那只狮子……但战胜失败或许比得到奖品更重要,老人虽然陷入无限惆怅,但我想他始终是大海上那个无人能比手拿渔叉痛击鲨鱼的英雄人物。 或许海明威的文字很简单,但能将and这个词用得如此之多和流畅,文字深处蕴含的文化与生活与宗教,不愧是冰山理论,我想已经是无人能及了,所以我也就不奇怪为什么这本书能获得诺贝尔奖了,因为它的确很独特。个人总体评分4.5,因为前面和大鱼周旋的篇幅太长了,属实有点吊胃口。 (展开)