by Ernest Hemingway · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497594585
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«El viejo y el mar» is the short novel by Ernest Hemingway, published by Debolsillo in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has gone many days without catching anything and whom luck seems to have abandoned. On a solo outing, a giant fish bites his hook and a multi-day battle begins on the high seas, where the man faces his physical limits and his dignity in the face of defeat.
Originally published in 1952, it received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953; Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The edition includes a translation by Lino Novás Calvo and a prologue by Juan Villoro.
It is common reading in schools and a brief classic for those starting out in literary fiction.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
