The Old Man and the Sea

ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ Today we are reading Ernest Hemingways novel The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois, U. S. died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), American novelist and shortstory writer. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century. In 1953 he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the long voyage home. This book played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. To survive in such a world, and perhaps emerge victorious, one must conduct oneself with honour, courage, enduranc