Paperback, 112 pages
English language
Published Oct. 12, 1994 by Penguin Random House.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
Je ne sais pas si j'ai la bonne grille de lecture, mais je suis content d'avoir enfin lu ce "classique". Il m'a tenu en haleine malgré quelques longueurs et j'ai voulu aller jusqu'au bout, je n'ai pas été déçu. Pourtant parfois il serait plus sage d'abandonner des entreprises qui s'annoncent vaines, quitte à blesser son égo, non ?
I was not impressed, but definitely entertained. Good writing, it made me feel things, definitely. But at the end of the day... that is it. Just a single-afternoon short story about an old man having a very rough couple days at work trying to gain back some respect from himself. I hope he is fine, now.
