Name: The old man and the sea (New Windmills) (New Windmills Ks3) (in English)
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Author: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780435122164

portada The old man and the sea (New Windmills) (New Windmills Ks3) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Heinemann

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Synopsis "The old man and the sea (New Windmills) (New Windmills Ks3) (in English)"

Here for a change is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway s career which was foundering under the weight of such postwar 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 favorite 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.