The Old Man and the Sea
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Such is the message that Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea forcefully sends to the rea.. Lire la suite
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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Such is the message that
Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea forcefully sends to
the reader. When Santiago, the old Cuban fisherman, undertakes his
fishing exploit, he hopes to reverse the 84-day streak of bad luck, but
he heroically comes back with the greatest catch of his life. Mocked by
his fellow fishermen and abandoned by Manolin, his young apprentice and
friend, Santiago endures extreme pain caused by the cord around his
body, and resists attacks of fierce sharks, alone amidst the vast sea,
to bring a giant marlin to the shore.
The Old Man and the Sea is
written in plain but forceful language. Published in 1952, it earned its
author the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and played a major part in awarding
him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
