The novel The Old Man and the Sea is based on true stories. After the end of World War II, Hemingway moved to Cuba and met the old fisherman gregorio fuentes. 1930, Hemingway's boat was killed in a storm, and fuentes rescued Hemingway. From then on, Hemingway and fuentes forged a deep friendship and often went fishing together. 1936, fuentes caught a big fish at sea for a long time, but because the fish was too big, it was dragged at sea for a long time. As a result, it was attacked by a shark on the way home, and only a skeleton was left when it came back. Hemingway published a newsletter "On the Blue Ocean" in "Master" magazine to report this matter. At that time, this incident touched Hemingway deeply, and he realized that it was a good novel material, but he never had a chance to write it.
About the author:
Hemingway, American novelist. 1July 2, 8991was born in the rubber garden town on the outskirts of Chicago. My father is a doctor and a sports enthusiast, and my mother is engaged in music education. Among the six brothers and sisters, he ranked second, and loved sports, fishing and hunting since childhood. After graduating from high school, I traveled to France and other places, and worked as a trainee reporter after returning home. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered to go to Italy as a battlefield ambulance driver. 19 18 was seriously injured by a shell at the front line in the summer, and returned to China to recuperate. He went to Toronto Star as a reporter. 192 1 returned to Paris to meet American woman writer Stein, young writer Anderson and poet Pound. ?
1923 published his first novel, Three Short Stories and Ten Poems, and then traveled to European countries. 1926 published the novel The Sun Also Rises, which was initially successful and was called the lost generation by Stein.1929, the novel A Farewell to Arms, which reflected the First World War, brought the writer a reputation. In the early 1930s, Hemingway traveled and hunted in Africa. 1935 was written as "The Castle Peak of Africa" and some short stories. 1937 published a novel "with and without" describing maritime smuggling activities between the United States and Cuba.
During the Spanish Civil War, he visited the front line as a reporter three times, wrote the script "The Fifth Column" under fire, and created the novel "For Who Will the Bell Toll" with the theme of Americans participating in the Spanish people's anti-fascist war (1940). He has donated money with many famous American writers and scholars to support the just struggle of the Spanish people. 194 1 year, his wife Martha visited China, supported China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, returned to Europe as a war correspondent, and participated in many battles. After the war, he lived in Cuba and devoted himself to writing.
1952, The Old Man and the Sea came out, which was well received and won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. 1954 was awarded to Nobel Prize in Literature. After Castro came to power, he left Cuba to settle in the United States. He committed suicide with a shotgun on July 2, 196 1 because of many old injuries, illness and depression. Ming Wei's posthumous works include Island in Current (1970) and Eden (1986). His unique style and the image of a tough guy have a far-reaching impact on modern European and American literature.
Born into a family of rural doctors, he liked fishing, hunting, music and painting since he was a child. He participated in World War I as a driver of the Red Cross motorcade, and later served as a journalist in Europe for a long time. He also participated in World War II and the Spanish Civil War as a journalist. Suffering from various diseases in his later years, he was very depressed. After repeated medical treatment, he finally committed suicide with a shotgun. His early novels The Sun Also Rises (1927) and A Farewell to Arms (1927) became the main representative works of the lost generation in America.
In the 1930s and 1940s, he turned to portray the image of an anti-fascist fighter who got rid of confusion and pessimism and fought bravely and died fearlessly for the people's interests (the script The Fifth Column 1938) and the novel For whom the bell tolls (1940). After 1950s, he continued to develop the unyielding themes of the short stories Invincible Man and 50,000 Oceans in the 1920s, and created a tough character represented by Santiago (the representative novella The Old Man and the Sea 1950).
In art, his simple and powerful style and excellent use of various modernist techniques have caused a literary revolution in American literature, and many European and American writers have been obviously influenced by him. 1950 Shortly after Christmas, Hemingway had a strong desire to create. In the villa "Viewing Society" on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, he began to write "The Old Man and the Sea" (originally named "The Existing Sea").
The first draft was completed on February 23rd, 195 1, and it took only eight weeks before and after. Hemingway sent the manuscript to his friends who visited Cuba in April and won unanimous praise. Hemingway himself thought it was "the best work he could write in his life".
Introduction to the work:
The story of The Old Man and the Sea is set in Cuba in the middle of the 20th century. The protagonist is an old fisherman named Santiago, and the supporting role is a child named Manorine. The old fisherman, who was in the twilight years, didn't catch a fish for eighty-four days in a row, but he still refused to give up. Instead, he was full of the spirit of struggle and finally caught a marlin with a length of eighteen feet and a weight of 1,500 pounds on the eighty-fifth day. The big fish dragged the boat to the sea, but the old man still clung to it. Even without water, food, weapons and assistants, he didn't lose heart at all. After two days and two nights, he finally killed the big fish and tied it to the boat. But many sharks immediately came to snatch his trophy. He killed them one by one, and in the end only a broken tiller was left as a weapon. As a result, the big fish could not escape the fate of being eaten up. Finally, the old man dragged back a pair of fish bones exhausted. He went home and lay in bed, so he had to find the good old days from his dreams to forget the cruel reality.