The expression of invincible tough guy spirit in the history of literature

Really good works are all about life experience.

Only the victory of the spirit can make us moved and shed tears for its tragic.

One of the hundred classics that have influenced history.

One of the 32 landmark books in American history.

1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1986 ideal books recommended by French reading magazines

1952, Hemingway published his best work The Old Man and the Sea. This is a treasure in the treasure house of world literature, and it is also a treasure in all Hemingway's creations.

The book sold amazingly only 48 hours after its publication, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature that year. 1954, because Hemingway is "proficient in narrative art, which is highlighted in his new work The Old Man and the Sea; At the same time, due to his influence on contemporary style, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature. " Every sentence and paragraph should be as concise as possible. "This is one of Hemingway's writing creeds, which makes his works adapted into movies more times than any other winner. When he was announced as the Pulitzer Prize winner, critics unanimously called him a good man. " Man can be destroyed, but not defeated. Hemingway's words in The Old Man and the Sea not only touched the readers, but also conquered the critics.

The novel shows Santiago, an old fisherman, under heavy pressure in a realistic way, and this mentally invincible man has become one of the most famous "tough guys" images in literary history. Hemingway himself thinks that The Old Man and the Sea translated into dozens of languages is "the best work that can be written in this life".

The Old Man and the Sea is an idyllic poem. The sea is the sea, not Byronic or Melville, just like Homer's. The writing is calm and moving, just like Homer's poem. A real artist is neither symbolic nor allegorical-Hemingway is a real artist-but any real work of art can exude symbolic and allegorical significance, and so can this short but not insignificant masterpiece.

-Robert Behrensen, American art historian

Hemingway had a strong desire. He tried to impose his views on things on us, so as to shape the image of a tough guy ... When he longed for victory in his dream, there would be a complete victory, a great battle and a happy ending.

-American writer Saul Bellow

Man can fail, but he can't be defeated. The external body can be tortured, but the internal will is sacred and inviolable. This is an argument repeatedly emphasized in The Old Man and the Sea. Real masters express the deepest truth in the simplest language, and real good works are based on the experience of life. "The Old Man and the Sea" depicts the best portrait of Hemingway's life. As Hemingway said, "I have read it more than 200 times, and every time I read it, I get more, as if my life's efforts have finally got what I want."

-Chen Renxiao, a scholar in Taiwan Province Province

Hemingway's works unify the accuracy and conciseness of narration, but the theme is deeply imprinted in the reader's mind. The Old Man and the Sea is the most widely read Nobel Prize in Literature's award-winning work among China readers, and it is also Hemingway's classic.

-Young writer Li Pai

Unforgettable Hemingway

I'm thinking that when something is missing in a person's bones, he will naturally think of Hemingway.

In the early 1980s, I began to read Hemingway. That kind of freshness and surprise, even when I think about it now, still makes me ecstatic and bright as ever. Since then, Hemingway has entered my reading field of vision, and he often reads and is always new. For more than 20 years, the desire to study has always been lingering.

The first book I read was The Old Man and the Sea. As Hemingway himself said, "it is the best work I can write in my life." Before I finished reading this book, the image of the protagonist Santiago was engraved in my mind. This is a novel about the struggle between man and nature. The old man struggled at sea for two days and nights, and finally only won an empty fish rack. The moral of the work is symbolic, although the old man still shines after the defeat. As the old man said, "people are not born to be defeated." People can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated. " I have always regarded this sentence as Hemingway's confession and a symbol of Hemingway's tough guy spirit. For many years, this seems to be a wise saying.

I have read several different versions of Hemingway's biography and know that he is a writer who loves hunting and fishing. He has been to the battlefields of World War I and World War II. He had 237 shrapnel and 57 stitches in his head. He suffered two plane crashes in Africa, and his severe concussion made his eyesight and health worse and worse.

This is Hemingway. His experience has shaped his tough character. In his novels, themes such as boxing, bullfighting, hunting, fishing and war appear repeatedly, which are symbols of strength. Of course, it is also mixed with alcohol, violence, sex, loneliness and death.

Hemingway let me know how important a person's experience is, which is priceless wealth. No one can belittle his experience.

Today's men are naturally unattainable for Hemingway's life. As a result, people once issued a call to "find a man." A strong and tenacious manly man has become less and less common. The meaning of life lies in a spirit that dares to bear pain and despises death.

I think a writer's fame lies not in how much he writes, but in his unique creation. Hemingway established his position in world literature with his legendary life and a series of tough guy images. Moreover, people can easily distinguish his voice from the group images of literary masters.

Undeniably, what conforms to Hemingway's tough guy spirit is his writing style with distinctive personal characteristics-conciseness and neatness. He gave up irrelevant materials, technical skills, emotional overflow and poor description. As the British writer O Bates said, "He used unprecedented courage to cut off the' loose hair' attached to literature in English." It is said that The Old Man and the Sea has been revised more than 200 times. It could have been written as 1000 pages, leaving only a few dozen pages of short novellas. If it is still more than 1000 pages, it is not Hemingway. Nobel Prize in Literature's history will also erase his name.

Hemingway's charm lies in that he purified the style of writing at that time and set off a "literary revolution". Therefore, he was regarded as a model by many contemporary and later writers and attracted the attention of readers from generation to generation in the world. Its influence, like spring breeze and rain, is lasting.

Hemingway is immortal? I find it difficult to have a writer like Hemingway, whose experience and works have made me read and read again. Because Hemingway is an endless topic.