by Ernest Hemingway · Scribner · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780684801223
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«The Old Man and the Sea» is the short novel by Ernest Hemingway, published by Scribner in paperback (128 pages, in English).
An old Cuban fisherman, pursued by bad luck, faces a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream in an exhausting struggle. The story, told with simplicity and symbolic force, turns that resistance into a parable about courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph born of loss.
Originally published in 1952, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954; this edition is from 1995.
Recommended as school reading and for those who want to approach a brief classic of American literature.
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.
