127 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 1995 by Scribner Paperback Fiction.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (Cuba), and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
Je ne sais pas si j'ai la bonne grille de lecture, mais je suis content d'avoir enfin lu ce "classique". Il m'a tenu en haleine malgré quelques longueurs et j'ai voulu aller jusqu'au bout, je n'ai pas été déçu. Pourtant parfois il serait plus sage d'abandonner des entreprises qui s'annoncent vaines, quitte à blesser son égo, non ?
I was not impressed, but definitely entertained. Good writing, it made me feel things, definitely. But at the end of the day... that is it. Just a single-afternoon short story about an old man having a very rough couple days at work trying to gain back some respect from himself. I hope he is fine, now.
