El viejo y el mar / The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

El viejo y el mar / The Old Man and the Sea
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
2 July 2019
Pages
160
ISBN
9781644730546

El viejo y el mar / The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Una de
las historias mas grandes jamas contadas

En Cuba, un viejo pescador ya en el crepusculo de su vida, pobre y sin
suerte, cansado de regresar cada dia sin pesca, emprende una ultima y
arriesgada travesia en busca de una gran pieza. Cuando al fin logra dar con
ella, comienza una feroz lucha. Y el regreso a puerto, con el acoso de
los elementos y los tiburones, se convierte en una ultima prueba. Como un rey
mendigo, coronado por su imbatible dignidad, el viejo pescador culmina
finalmente su destino.

En la cuspide de su maestria, Hemingway alumbro una historia en cuya
sencillez vibra el clasico tema del valor ante la derrota, del triunfo
personal sacado de la perdida. El viejo y el mar lo confirmo como uno de los
escritores mas significativos del siglo XX, obteniendo el Premio Pulitzer y
allanando su carrera hacia el Premio Nobel.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Old
Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language
of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,
down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal – a relentless, agonizing battle
with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme
of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written
in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in
the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel
Prize for Literature.

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