پیرمرد و دریا

by Ernest Hemingway

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216 pages

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Jessica added it (review of isbn 0684830493)

05/19/08

bookshelves: aborted-efforts

I was very surprised when I finally tried to read this, and discovered that it bored the living crap out of me. I just couldn't get into it, I don't know why, maybe it was just my mood or something....? I mean, I do like Hemingway. I love the sea, and baseball. I am relatively fond of both old men and little boys (not like that, you fool).... and this is supposed to be really terrific and all, but I just.... I mean, I could've finished it of course, it's short, and it wouldn't have...more

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ShellBell rated it:

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10/08/08

bookshelves: classics

Read in October, 2008

My first Hemingway! I'm glad I started here with such a simply written story of an old man's battle to land a giant marlin far out at sea. It was vividly written. I could almost taste the salt spray and feel the old man's pain as he tried to bring the fish in.

I read the surface of the story: old man versus fish, but I also read the deeper story: old man's struggle as extended metaphor. The old man's battle with the fish represented the struggle of a person living in the world. The inconveni...more

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Vanja rated it:

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12/28/07

The story:

(old) Man vs. Nature.

A down-in-luck old man becomes truly desperate after going for 84 days without a catch. Soon, he hooks the catch of a life-time. The rest of the novel describes the man and fish (a marlin) in their struggle that lasts for days. Don't worry, at this point, I will not give away the ending (not that it is that thrilling).

This story, of course, has deeper symbolic implications. Although the exact symbolism may be debated, the story seems to have certain mo...more

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Hager rated it:

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12/19/07

HAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them.

To die, to sleep--

No more--and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to.

'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--

To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,

For in that slee...more

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Rick rated it:

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05/27/08

Read in May, 2008

recommends it for: anyone living their life and anyone that has tested themself in some way

I liked this book because it has something to say about life and people. I'd agree with any interpretation that compares the marlin to our ambitions and accomplishments in life. They might be big, but in the end they are a skeleton of memories and then not even that. For me the character of the boy meant most that we help give each other's lives meaning. I agree with the Sparknotes analysis that pride will make us drive ourselves mercilessly to make what we want of our lives. The old man's ...more

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Greg rated it:

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08/17/07

Read in July, 2006

recommends it for: the literate in the broadest sense.

Sad book. Read it, but know it is sad.
This is probably written at about a 4th grade reading level, and the audience is at least that broad.
It seems fitting that I would review this book at 3 am drunk and on the shitter.
I'll spare you the christ imagery chit-chat.

Why did Ernest Hemingway cross the road?

To die. In the rain.

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Cierra rated it:

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08/21/08

bookshelves: currently-reading

recommends it for: Everyone!

I'm not a huge Hemingway fan, but I do have to say that this book is one of my favorites and the best that Hemingway wrote. What an incredible tale of human fortitude and self-validation. I love this story so much. I forget I am reading each time: the words are constructed in such a way that I visualize the whole story as though I were an invisible spectator. I love the descriptions of the old man's hands, and the whole story is told with unbelievable detail. We can all identify with the epic s...more

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Amang "Po" rated it:

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07/18/08

bookshelves: indonesian, world-literature

Read in September, 1991

recommends it for: sastra klasik

Salao -- demikian orang-orang memanggil Santiago, nelayan Kuba yang tua. Salao, artinya orang yang paling sial dari yang paling sial. Bagaimana tidak, selama 85 hari ia sudah melaut dan tidak mendapatkan ikan satupun padahal itu bulan September, bulan dimana arus besar selalu dipenuhi ikan. Rekor sebelumnya, 87 hari tanpa ikan.

Tapi Santiago bukanlah orang mudah patah semangat, di hari ke-85 itu ia memutuskan untuk melaut sejauh-jauhnya sambil berdoa agar mendapat ikan. Memang b...more Salao -- demikian orang-orang memanggil Santiago, nelayan Kuba yang tua. Salao, artinya orang yang paling sial dari yang paling sial. Bagaimana tidak, selama 85 hari ia sudah melaut dan tidak mendapatkan ikan satupun padahal itu bulan September, bulan dimana arus besar selalu dipenuhi ikan. Rekor sebelumnya, 87 hari tanpa ikan.

Tapi Santiago bukanlah orang mudah patah semangat, di hari ke-85 itu ia memutuskan untuk melaut sejauh-jauhnya sambil berdoa agar mendapat ikan. Memang benar, akhirnya tertangkap oleh kailnya, ikan Marlin sepanjang 18 kaki (luar biasa besar!!! dan belum ada orang yang berhasil menangkap sebesar itu) dan dengan penuh perjuangan dan rasa jumawa ia mengatakan bahwa dirinya telah menang. Karena begitu besarnya ikan Marlin itu dan dirinya sudah terlalu lelah, ikan itu diikat dan disampirkan di sisi kapalnya. Sesuatu yang menarik perhatian ikan hiu-hiu mako dan seolah-olah mengundang mereka untuk makan gratis.

Lalu benar, selama 4 hari Santiago berperang melawan hiu-hiu yang tak kunjung lelah menghabisi ikannya hingga yang tersisa hanya rangka. Salao memang si Santiago! Tapi di mata Manolin, anak kecil yang dapat disetarakan dengan murid, Santiago adalah nelayan hebat. Ia berjanji bahwa ia tidak akan membiarkan Santiago sendirian dan mulai saat itu menjadi partner lagi.

Setelah membaca novella (cerpen yang panjaaaaang) ini, saya menjadi seorang "believer". Believer of dream and hard work. Santiago menunjukkan sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup yang dapat membuat perubahan: semangat. Dan soal ini saya berutang terima kasih yang banyak sekali pada Ernest Hemingway.

Novella ini ditulis Ernest Hemingway berdasarkan pengamatan dia sendiri waktu tinggal di Key West, Florida dan Kuba pada tahun 1930-an. Waktu itu bahkan Hemingway pernah menulis cerpen untuk majalah Esquire tahun 1936 tentang seorang nelayan Kuba yang diseret sampai jauh ke tengah laut oleh ikan marlin. Hingga akhirnya ikan tangkapannya itu disikat habis oleh hiu. Tampaknya ini yang kemudian dikembangkan oleh Hemingway menjadi novella Lelaki Tua dan Laut ini. Bagiku, novel ini dapat disetarakan dengan cerpen William Faulkner berjudul “The Bear” dan novel Moby-Dick karya Herman Melville.

Secara khusus mengenai novella ini, aku ingin mengatakan karya terjemahan ini dapat dijadikan standar/tolok ukur terjemahan yang berkualitas. Jadi salut untuk Sapardi Djoko Damono.

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Anne rated it:

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07/10/08

Read in July, 2008

recommended to Anne by: Stacie?

Right, so. I feel the need to contextualize this.

In 10th grade, I had to read The Sun Also Rises which, for a number of reasons, put a bad taste in my mouth. Having no frame of reference for Hemingway, I still found myself reacting negatively to his very male-ness. I didn't give a crap about Jake's impotence, and I could think of quite a few male figures in my life who I thought damn well deserved impotence. Plus, it was just sort of half-assedly taught, and I was fifteen.

Seco...more Right, so. I feel the need to contextualize this.

In 10th grade, I had to read The Sun Also Rises which, for a number of reasons, put a bad taste in my mouth. Having no frame of reference for Hemingway, I still found myself reacting negatively to his very male-ness. I didn't give a crap about Jake's impotence, and I could think of quite a few male figures in my life who I thought damn well deserved impotence. Plus, it was just sort of half-assedly taught, and I was fifteen.

Second, and this is pretty nonsensical but it sticks in my mind for some reason: in the early nineties (jaysis), I was obsessed with supermodels, in particular Christy Turlington. For whatever reason, I wanted to believe all good things about her, and hold her up as a personal style icon. So I was really excited when I heard her talking about being a lit major, and a Hemingway scholar and stuff. I don't know - I think I was trying to find some middle ground, some place to exist between being a pretty girl and having a brain, and I needed a role model. Anyway, in a discussion of the intellectual capacity of supermodels with a female roommate of mine, I remember actually saying in defense of La Christy: "But she reads Hemingway!" and my roommate replying "All that means is that she has bad taste." It really stuck with me.

Cut to 16 years later, and /The Old Man and the Sea. This time around, I loved the spare style, the whole man against the elements business, and I didn't even mind when the old guy called the sea a whore. It made me want to strip my life down to its barest elements, and as I wrote to a friend who was horrified I hadn't read it, "use my pants for a pillow."

This is a very reader-resonsy type of review, but that's what summer reading's all about, isn't it? My personal thoughts and reflections and emotional reactions. My reaction to this is that I feel like a fat capitalist, and it makes me wonder where in my life I ever live as deeply or as on the edge, and if I'm capable of creating that kind of deep living in my comfortable, suburban existence. I don't want to become a weekend warrior or anything - I don't think that's the point. I just find myself wondering about my current definition of living.

Pardon me while I finish my iced coffee with sugar free vanilla syrup....less

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Joshua rated it:

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02/06/08

bookshelves: classics

Read in January, 1997

recommends it for: Anyone into a thoughtful, albeit short ,read

So what is this book about? It can all be summed up from a scene occurring in one of my favorite South Park episodes:

Mexican 1: Si, we read it.
Kyle: What was it about, in case our teacher asks us?
Mexican 1: He starts, there's this old man and his job is to catch the fish. So he get in the boat to try and catch the fish.
Mexican 2: So he catch the fish but the fish is very strong, so the old man can not reel in the fish.
Mexican 3: ...more

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Christie rated it:

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01/06/08

bookshelves: the-classics

recommends it for: Early to mid teens

This book was my gateway drug to the literary greats. I selected it, as was often my process, by choosing it from my parents' library of leftovers from college. This one actually looked like one I could tackle at about age 14. So, I did. This book was one of elegant simplicity, much like its characters. The size of the book contrasting with the power of the story are evidence of the might in his words. I wept at the conclusion of the story and I was immediately enlightened as to why Hemmingway w...more

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Jonathan rated it:

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11/04/07

bookshelves: 11thgradebooksread

Read in September, 2007

recommends it for: anyone

The Old Man and the Sea is a book about trail. The Old Man happens to be a person who has met his match in strength and age. He was once a well reputed fisherman and has been through many ordeals. However, in this current state, few people respect him and look at him as finished. However, he finds hope in a task that has been avoiding him for the past few months. He has been on the hot pursuit of a large fish, a sail fish of great size and beauty.
This fish symbolizes a lot about th...more

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Christopher rated it:

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09/13/07

Read in September, 2007

recommends it for: Anyone

Hemingway has a style of writing that can take some getting used to. He strips away all the extraneous words to leave a pure story. Not a line is wasted, not even a word. Another aspect of his writing is the ability to bring a book together in the ending. This is not my favourite Hemingway piece, but it really is a wonderful book about "man". The key phrase from this book - which I feel sums up the entire story - is "A man is not made for defeat...a man can be destroyed but n...more

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Jonathan rated it:

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06/12/07

Read in June, 2007

This is Santiago's story. He's an aged Cuban fisherman who once paired with a helpful boy in his skiff but has gone fishless for 80-odd days straight. He goes way out on the waters early one morning and subsequently finds himself in the fight of his life to bring in a wondrous marlin.

This is a compact, crafty read for anyone who can't break away from all the mysteries of the sea. Hemingway knows better than most how to inject meaning into the seemingly quaint parts of life, or rather reveal ...more

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Ali rated it:

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06/03/07

bookshelves: novels

As much as Twin is American, Hemingway is un-American. He is the most famous narrator of "loosers but proud". He came to literature world with Nick Adams (In our Time), lived as Nick lived and died as Nick would die! Laconic but efficient, compendious but moving. Wishing for peace he lived in war and came to the coast with the fish skeleton left in his hand, as Santiago did (Old Man and the Sea).
پیر مرد و دریا فراموش نشدنی ست، هم بخاطر خشونتی ک�...more

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Halleluwah rated it:

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06/06/08

Read in May, 2008

recommended to Halleluwah by: Myself
recommends it for: Anyone

‘The old man and the sea’ was top class. The old man's cohesion with the fish, sea, boy, slave, fishing rod, sky was a ubiquitous theme throughout the book. After a streak of 84 days with out a catch, his luck is back and he goes on an adventure with sharks, a massive marlin and an octogenarian rights of passage to win back his pride. His honour, humility and respect for the world and its decisions fill you with warmth. The old man is on a journey of self discovery and everything else...more

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Steve rated it:

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05/15/08

Read in May, 2008

Despite all of the various interpretations given this book, for better or often worse, I found this to be an enjoyable book simply on the merits of the book itself. I am not overly familiar with Hemingways works but I love this book because he brings us clear writing, he feels no need to impress us with his erudite linguistic abilities, and gives us believable characters though men like the old man are rarely seen in this day and age. I will leave the interpretations to those that want to impr...more

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Tanner added it (review of isbn 0684830493)

09/28/08

This book really cut into me deep. I love this book from the bottom of my heart. The setting was described very well with the imagery, diction, and syntax. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants a tear jerker.
This story about an old man and his love for fishing will really keep those pages turning. Watch out for paper cuts! Overall this book taught me to follow what you love to do and never give up. It really taught me a great lesson.

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Geert rated it:

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11/29/08

Read in November, 2008

'The Old Man and The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway was first published at 1952. It's a treasure of a (short) novel.

Havana. After 57 days the old man - a fisher - had not caught anything. On the 58th day he catched an enormous fish. The old man fought with the fish between hours and hours. He had no food and almost nothing to drink with him. On the third day the fish gave it up and died. The fish was so big that the old man could not bring him aboard: he must fasten him on the outside of the littl...more

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Gigi rated it:

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03/04/08

bookshelves: pulitzer-prize-for-fiction

Read in February, 2008

I enjoyed listening to this book (while folding laundry). The story is a simple, straight forward plot. A fisherman goes out after months of not catching anything and hooks a fish. How far will he go? Does he have the strength to do it? Will it give him the satisfaction he craves? The depth of feeling and description made it wonderful to read and through words time, fatigue, and anguish were intensely felt.

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