Introduction to Hemingway and the Old Man and the Sea 2009-03-3114 Hemingway (1899 ~ 196 1) is an American novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. 1899 July 2 1 was born in a rubber garden town on the outskirts of Chicago. My father is a doctor and a sports enthusiast, and my mother is engaged in music education. Among six brothers and sisters, he ranks second. He likes sports, fishing and hunting since he was a child. After graduating from high school, I traveled to France and other places and worked as a trainee reporter after returning home. After the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to go to Italy as a battlefield ambulance driver. 1965438+In the summer of 2008, he was seriously injured by shells at the front line and returned to China to recuperate. Later, he went to the Toronto Star as a reporter. 192 1 Back in Paris, I met American woman writer Stein, young writer Anderson and poet Pound. 1923, published his first novel, three short stories and ten poems, and then traveled to European countries. 1926, the novel The Sun Also Rises was published, which was initially successful and was called "the lost generation" by Stein. The appearance of the novel A Farewell to Arms, which reflects the First World War, brought the writer a reputation. In the early 1930s, Hemingway traveled and hunted in Africa. 1935 wrote "The Castle Peak of Africa" and some short stories. 1937 published the novel "With or without", describing the maritime smuggling activities between the United States and Cuba. During the Spanish Civil War, he visited the front three times as a reporter, wrote the script "The Fifth Column" during the war, and created the novel "For Who Will the Bell Toll" with the theme of Americans participating in the Spanish people's anti-fascist war (1940). He and many famous American writers and scholars donated money to support the just struggle of the Spanish people. 194 1 year, his wife Martha visited China to support War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China. Later, he returned to Europe as a war correspondent and took part in many battles. After the war, he lived in Cuba and devoted himself to writing. 1952, The Old Man and the Sea came out, which received rave reviews and won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. After Castro took office, he left Cuba and settled in the United States. He committed suicide with a shotgun on July 2nd, 196 1 due to many old injuries, diseases and depression. Hemingway's posthumous works include: Island in Rapids (1970) and Eden (1986). His unique style and tough guy image have a far-reaching influence on modern European and American literature.

A Brief Introduction to The Old Man and the Sea

The old man Santiago hasn't caught a fish for 84 days. At first, a young boy, Manorine, shared his bad luck with him, but after forty days of bad luck, the boy's father asked him to work on another boat. From then on, San Diego had to work alone. Every morning, he paddles to the Gulf of Mexico with big fish. Every night, he always comes home empty-handed.

The child likes and sympathizes with the old fisherman. If Manorine doesn't earn money, he will beg or steal to make sure that San Diego has enough food and fresh bait. The old man humbly accepted the kindness of the child, and there was some pride hidden in his humility. At dinner (they eat rice and black beans), they always talk about the big fish they caught together on lucky days, or about the American baseball game and the great DiMaggio. At night, Santiago lay alone in his hut, dreaming of lions on African beaches. He sailed to that place a few years ago. He stopped dreaming of his dead wife.

On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago rowed the boat out of the harbor in the cold darkness before dawn. After leaving the smell of the land behind him, he put down the fishing line. His two baits are fresh tuna given to him by the child and sardines covering the hook. The fishing line plunged vertically into the dark deep water.

When the sun rises, he sees other ships heading for the coast, which looks like a green belt near the sea horizon. A hovering frigate bird showed the old man where dolphins chased flying fish. But fish swim too fast and too far. This raptor is circling again. This time San Diego saw tuna jumping in the sun. A small tuna bit the hook on his stern line. When the old man pulled the trembling tuna onto the boat, he thought it was a good sign.

Towards noon, a marlin began to nibble at the bait at a depth of 100 meters. The old man gently manipulated the hooked fish. According to the weight of the fishing line, he knew it must be a big fish. Finally, he jerked the fishing line to stabilize the hook. However, the fish did not surface, but began to drag the boat to the northwest. The old man braced himself and the fishing line hanging on his shoulder tightened. Although he is alone and his physical strength is not as good as before, he is capable and knows many tricks. He waited patiently for the fish to get tired.

After sunset, the cold was biting, and the old man was shivering with cold. When one of his remaining baits was bitten, he cut the fishing line with his sheathed knife. Once, the fish suddenly leaned over and pulled Santiago to the ground, and the old man's cheek was cut. At dawn, his left hand became stiff and twitching. The fish still swim north and can't see the land. The old man's right hand was strangled by another jerk on the fishing line. The old man was so hungry that he cut a few pieces of meat from tuna and chewed it slowly in his mouth, waiting for the sun to come out to warm his body and relieve the pain of finger cramps.

The next morning, the fish jumped out of the water Santiago saw the fish jump and knew that he had caught the biggest marlin he had ever seen. After a while, the fish sank again and turned to the east. On a hot afternoon, San Diego scrimped and saved on the water in the kettle. In order to forget his cut hand and sore back, he recalled how people used to call him a "winner" and how he competed with a big black man in a local bar in cienfuegos. Once, a plane flew overhead to Miami.

At dusk, a dolphin swallowed the small hook he put on the bait. He lifted the "fish" onto the planking, being careful not to pull the fishing line on his shoulder. After a rest, he cut off some pieces of dolphin meat, leaving two flying fish found in the dolphin's stomach. He fell asleep that night. When he woke up, he felt the fishing line slip out of his fingers when the fish jumped up. He slowly loosened the line and tried to drag the marlin out. The big fish recovered, washed his cut hand in the sea and ate a flying fish. At sunrise, the marlin began to spin. The old man felt dizzy, but he tried to pull the big fish closer every time he turned the corner. Although he was almost exhausted, he finally kept pace with his catch and hit the marlin with a harpoon. He drank a little water, and then tied the marlin at the fore and aft of his boat. This marlin is two feet ahead of the captain. Never seen such a big fish caught in Havana harbor, he pulled up the patched sail and began to sail southwest, thinking that he would make a fortune.

An hour later, he saw the first shark. This is a fierce mako shark. It swam very fast, biting the dead marlin with rake-like teeth. The old man tried his best to plunge the harpoon into the shark. The mako shark rolled and sank, picked up the harpoon and bit the marlin to pieces. Santiago knew the smell of blood would spread. He looked at the sea and saw two plowshare sharks swimming close. He hit one of them with a knife tied to one end of the paddle and watched the scavenger slide into the deep sea. He killed another shark that was biting the marlin. When the third shark appeared, he poked the knife at it. The shark rolled and broke the knife. Some sharks swam over at sunset. At first, he tried to cut them with the rudder, but his hand was beaten black and blue, bleeding, and there were so many sharks coming. In the twilight, he looked at the faint light of Havana on the horizon and listened to the sharks biting the bodies of marlins again and again. All the old man can think about at this time is turning and his extreme fatigue. He went out to sea too far, and the sharks beat him. He knew that the shark would not leave him anything except the empty skeleton of the marlin.

When he rowed into the small port and washed the boat up on the beach, all the lights on the shore went out In the dim light, he could only distinguish the marlin's white back from its vertical tail. He climbed to the shore with the mast and rolled up the sails. Once he collapsed under the heavy pressure, and he lay patiently on the ground, gathering strength. When he entered his hut, he fell asleep on the bed.

Later that morning, when the child found him, he was still lying. At this time, some fishermen gathered on the boat and marveled at the 18-foot-long marlin from beginning to end. When Manolin returned to his cabin in San Diego with hot coffee, the old man woke up. He told the child that he could take the long kiss of his fish. Manorine asked the old man to have a good rest and keep fit, so that they could go out fishing together in the future. The old man slept all afternoon and the child sat by his bed. Santiago dreamed of the lions.

The people upstairs are unkind and the landlord is too whimsical. It is impossible for a famous book to sum up its main contents in one sentence.

Can describe the essence of the theme-never give up.

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

Really good works are all about life experience.

Only the spiritual victory can move us and shed tears for its tragic.

One of the hundred classics that have influenced history.

One of the 32 landmark books in American history.

1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1986 ideal books recommended by French reading magazines

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

Because of his superb novel art-which is fully reflected in his new work "The Old Man and the Sea"-and because of his influence on contemporary style.

-get Nobel Prize in Literature's comments.

The Old Man and the Sea is an extremely powerful and concise work with irresistible beauty.

-holst Roma, member of the Faculty of Arts of Swedish College.

The old man and the sea is an idyllic poem, and the sea is the sea, not Byronic or Melville, just like Homer's handwriting: the writing is calm and moving, just like Homer's poem. A real artist is neither symbolic nor allegorical-Hemingway is a real artist-but any real work of art can exude symbolic and allegorical significance, and so can this short but not insignificant masterpiece.

-Behrensen, American art historian

Hemingway had a strong desire. He tried to impose his views on things on us, so as to shape the image of a tough guy ... When he longed for victory in his dream, there would be a complete victory, a great battle and a happy ending.

-American writer Saul Bellow

Man can fail, but he can't be defeated. The external body can be tortured, but the internal will is sacred and inviolable. This is an argument repeatedly emphasized in The Old Man and the Sea. Real masters express the deepest truth in the simplest language, and real good works are based on the experience of life. "The Old Man and the Sea" depicts the best portrait of Hemingway's life. As Hemingway said, "I have read it more than 200 times, and every time I read it, I get more, as if my life's efforts have finally got what I want."

-Chen Renxiao, a scholar in Taiwan Province Province

Hemingway's works unify the accuracy and conciseness of narration, but the theme is deeply imprinted in the reader's mind. The Old Man and the Sea is the most widely read Nobel Prize in Literature's award-winning work among China readers, and it is also Hemingway's classic.

-Young writer Li Pai

Hemingway is a western writer who has influenced China's generation. His influence is no less than that of Russian and Soviet literature, especially for us in the 1960s. ..... The hero in his works is not a hero, but has the courage to face reality or give up the courage to face reality. The two are often intertwined and intertwined.

—— The famous poet Plantago

What Hemingway taught me is equal to what all the teachers in the university taught me.

—— Famous writer Ye Zhaolin