The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

　　古巴一个叫“桑迪亚哥”的老渔民住在海边一个小窝棚里，他过着贫困的生活，而且举目无亲，无依无靠，唯有一个叫“马诺琳”的男孩去和他聊天，帮他收拾打渔的工具。最近老渔民倒霉透了，一连84天都没有捕猎到一条鱼，虽然霉运罩顶，但是老渔民却没有放弃，第85天，他依旧乐观的出海了。这一次，他的运气棒极了，捕猎到一条巨大的马林鱼，由于马林鱼过于巨大，力量比老渔民都大，马林鱼把老渔民和他的筏子拖到了海洋中心的深海处，老渔民经过三天三夜的战斗，凭借着顽强的意志，他战胜了孤单、疼痛和饥饿，把马林鱼杀死了，他把马林鱼绑在船上，开始返航回家。马林鱼的血引来了海洋中的鲨鱼，它们拼命地抢夺马林鱼的肉，虽然老渔民用尽方法杀掉了不少的鲨鱼，但是马林鱼的肉最终还是被哄抢一光，等到他回家，马林鱼只剩下一个骨架。

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961. (19980904)

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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works it centers upon Santiago an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
　　
　　《老人与海》（英语：The Old Man and the Sea）是海明威于1951年在古巴写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。它是海明威创作并在他还在世时出版的最后一部主要的虚构作品。作为他知名的作品之一，它围绕一位老年古巴渔夫，与一条巨大的马林鱼在离岸很远的湾流中搏斗。虽然对它有不同的文学评价，但它在20世纪小说和海明威的作品中是值得注目的，奠定了他在世界文学中的突出地位，对于他1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖也起了重要作用。
　　
　　

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