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标 题: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA(Brief View)-(1)
发信站: 听涛站 (Sat Mar 31 03:13:31 2001), 转信
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea may very well become one of the true classics
of this generation. Certainly, the qualities of Ernest Hemingway's short
novel are those which we associate with many great stories of the past:
near perfection of form within the limitations of its subject matter,
restraint of treatment, regard for the unities of time and place, and
evocative simplicity of style. Also, like most great stories, it can be
read on more than one level of meaning. On one it is an exciting but
tragic adventure story. Sustained by the pride of his calling, the only
pride he has left, a broken old fisherman ventures far out into the Gulf
Stream and there hooks the biggest marlin ever seen in those waters.
Then, alone and exhausted by his struggle to harpoon the giant fish, he
is forced into a losing battle with marauding sharks; they leave him
nothing but the skeleton of his catch. On another level the book is a
fable of the unconquerable spirit of man, a creature capable of
snatching spiritual victory from circumstances of disaster and material
defeat. On still another it is a parable of religious significance, its
theme supported by the writer's unobtrusive handling of Christian
symbols and metaphors. Like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Hemingway's
Cuban fisherman is a character allowing the imagination of his creator
to operate simultaneously in two different worlds of meaning and value,
the one real and dramatic, the other moral and devotionally symbolic.
《老人与海》完全可能成为当代一部名副其实的经典作品。厄纳斯特?海明威的
这部短篇小说无疑具有以往许多巨著的共同特点: 在题材所限的范围内几乎达到
形式上的完美无缺、处理方法谨严、注意时间和地点的统一,行文简洁而内涵很深
。另外,和极大多数巨著一样,海明威的这篇小说读起来可有不止一层的意思。一
方面,这是一个激动人心的带有悲剧性的冒险故事。故事讲到一个精神沮丧的老渔
人,在他对职吟威笔下的古巴渔民是这样一个角色,他容许作者的想象力同时在两
个领域中活动,这两个领域具有不同的意义和价值,一个注意写实,有着动人的情
节;另一个则侧重道德说教,充满象征的意义。
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