Paperback, 108 pages
Portuguese language
Published Aug. 9, 2006 by Editora Livros do Brasil.
Santiago, um velho pescador cubano, minado por um cancro de pele que o devora cruelmente, está há quase três meses sem conseguir pescar um único peixe. Vai então bater-se, durante quatro dias, com um enorme espadarte, que conseguirá de facto capturar, para logo o ver ser devorado por um grupo de tubarões.
Esta aventura poética, onde Hemingway retrata, uma vez mais, a capacidade do homem para fazer face e superar com sucesso os dramas e as dificuldades da vida real, é seguramente uma das suas obras mais comoventes e aquela que mais entusiasmo tem suscitado, ao longo de mais de meio século, entre os seus fiéis leitores.
O Velho e o Mar recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer, de 1952, e, dois anos mais tarde, valeu a Hemingway a obtenção do Prémio Nobel da Literatura.
O Velho e o Mar é, porventura, a obra-prima de maturidade de E. Hemingway.
An amazing and moving story. A true classic of literature.
a short, easy-to-read and enjoyable book
Futility and existence is wrapped in this marvel of a book, that uses its simplicity and Hemingway's sublime storytelling to bring out a powerful message about humanity.
Futility and existence is wrapped in this marvel of a book, that uses its simplicity and Hemingway's sublime storytelling to bring out a powerful message about humanity.
Reading my way through the classics and thought I would dive into my first Hemingway. I can't say I was disappointed.
We journey to Cuba to fish with Santiago, the old man of said title, and go with him out to the sea. Santiago has had a bit of a dry spell, not catching anything for 84 days. 84 days! What is this poor old man living on? Well, nothing but the kindness of Manolin, his sometimes apprentice. Determined to turn his luck, Santiago heads far out to search for a big catch.
Part man vs.nature, part reflections from an old man on a long life, this final book by Hemingway has many layers. I liked it. 3 stars.
Reading my way through the classics and thought I would dive into my first Hemingway. I can't say I was disappointed.
We journey to Cuba to fish with Santiago, the old man of said title, and go with him out to the sea. Santiago has had a bit of a dry spell, not catching anything for 84 days. 84 days! What is this poor old man living on? Well, nothing but the kindness of Manolin, his sometimes apprentice. Determined to turn his luck, Santiago heads far out to search for a big catch.
Part man vs.nature, part reflections from an old man on a long life, this final book by Hemingway has many layers. I liked it. 3 stars.
In the afternoon I started to read [b:The old man and the sea|2165|The Old Man and the Sea|Ernest Hemingway|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1329189714s/2165.jpg|69741]. I couldn't remember if I had read it before, but as it is a short book it coulodn't do any harm to read it again. I think before I started but did not finish it. It's about an old fisherman who has been unlucky for 84 days, and really needs to catch something. So he goes out to catch a big fish.
But it struck me as weird. I have this image of Hemingway as the grand macho hunting', shootin' and fishing type, who knows all there is to know about game animals and game fish, and yet here he is describing dolphins as having gills. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm reading a school edition, with notes. Surely there must be a note on that. But no, there …
In the afternoon I started to read [b:The old man and the sea|2165|The Old Man and the Sea|Ernest Hemingway|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1329189714s/2165.jpg|69741]. I couldn't remember if I had read it before, but as it is a short book it coulodn't do any harm to read it again. I think before I started but did not finish it. It's about an old fisherman who has been unlucky for 84 days, and really needs to catch something. So he goes out to catch a big fish.
But it struck me as weird. I have this image of Hemingway as the grand macho hunting', shootin' and fishing type, who knows all there is to know about game animals and game fish, and yet here he is describing dolphins as having gills. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm reading a school edition, with notes. Surely there must be a note on that. But no, there isn't. Is it just that the people who wrote the notes are equally ignorant, or that they don't want to suggest any weakness in the great master?
And it strikes me that if Hemigway is so ignorant of such an elementary fact of marine biology as that, does the rest of what he writes count for anything at all? How can he write about an old man and the sea and its creatures when he is that ignorant?
Ich muss zugeben, dass sich mir der Symbolismus nicht so richtig erschließen wollte. Natürlich geht es um das Dasein, um Freude, Freundschaft und Lebenszweck. Einen tieferen Sinn, wie der Rückentext ihn beschreibt, konnte ich aber nicht erkennen.
Dafür ist der Schreibstil so klar und geradlinig, dass man diese strenge Beherrschung der Erzählung einfach bewundern muss. Kaum ein Satz, der keinen klaren Beitrag leistet, und kaum ein Wort, das über eine sachliche Beschreibung hinausgeht. Die Atmosphäre baut sich allein durch die Geschehnisse und die nüchtern umrissene Szenerie auf. Dabei ist auch der Wortschatz sehr einfach – nur nicht, wenn es um die Fischerei geht: Dann werden Fische und Seile, Bootsteile und Angelzeug präzise benannt, und das Gemüt des alten Mannes kommt dem Leser näher.
Symbolismus hin oder her, auch in der direkten Lesung handelt es sich um ein wunderbares Buch, dessen lebensbejahender Humanismus allein es schon zur Pflichtlektüre macht.
De dos temas, siento, que me hablo este libro:
De la capacidad del hombre, sean aptitudes físicas y/o psicológicas, o vayan quizá más allá: El Viejo se encuentra en "La Mar" por tres días en los cuales, para sobrevivir, se aferra a estos diferentes recursos.
De la necesidad de, y equilibrio que causa la compañía de otro ser humano. Alguien con quien compartir, o charlar, además de la asistencia que podría haber recibido El Viejo por parte del Muchacho.
Este asunto me trae el libro [b:Of Mice And Men|890|Of Mice and Men|John Steinbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327872081s/890.jpg|40283] a la cabeza, donde el autor hace mucho énfasis en la soledad, o necesidad de compañía. En [b:Of Mice And Men|890|Of Mice and Men|John Steinbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327872081s/890.jpg|40283] el personaje llamado Crooks dice:
Muchas veces lo he visto: un hombre habla con otro, y no le importa si éste no lo oye o no lo comprende. La cuestión es …
De dos temas, siento, que me hablo este libro:
De la capacidad del hombre, sean aptitudes físicas y/o psicológicas, o vayan quizá más allá: El Viejo se encuentra en "La Mar" por tres días en los cuales, para sobrevivir, se aferra a estos diferentes recursos.
De la necesidad de, y equilibrio que causa la compañía de otro ser humano. Alguien con quien compartir, o charlar, además de la asistencia que podría haber recibido El Viejo por parte del Muchacho.
Este asunto me trae el libro [b:Of Mice And Men|890|Of Mice and Men|John Steinbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327872081s/890.jpg|40283] a la cabeza, donde el autor hace mucho énfasis en la soledad, o necesidad de compañía. En [b:Of Mice And Men|890|Of Mice and Men|John Steinbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327872081s/890.jpg|40283] el personaje llamado Crooks dice:
Muchas veces lo he visto: un hombre habla con otro, y no le importa si éste no lo oye o no lo comprende. La cuestión es hablar o, incluso, quedarse callado, sin hablar. Eso no importa, no importa nada. El caso es poder hablar. La cuestión es estar con otro hombre. Eso es todo.
My friend Allison said that she would rather have her eyes poked out than read this book. I recently picked it up so I figured I would read it and see what I thought of it.
I didn't like it either. It wasn't bad enough to make me poke my eyes out, but I don't like fishing, baseball. I didn't like the way the narrator talked to himself, I didn't like the way he and the boy talked. It seemed like they weren't actually talking to each other, they were explaining to the reader what their relationship was, and their history.
I usually like Hemingway's writing, but I just couldn't connect with this book. He is usually much better.
My friend Allison said that she would rather have her eyes poked out than read this book. I recently picked it up so I figured I would read it and see what I thought of it.
I didn't like it either. It wasn't bad enough to make me poke my eyes out, but I don't like fishing, baseball. I didn't like the way the narrator talked to himself, I didn't like the way he and the boy talked. It seemed like they weren't actually talking to each other, they were explaining to the reader what their relationship was, and their history.
I usually like Hemingway's writing, but I just couldn't connect with this book. He is usually much better.
