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The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics) The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
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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 که در جدال کوسه ها و پیر مرد است، خشونتی که در همه ی آثار همینگوی حضور دارد، و هم بخاطر غروری که یک شکست خورده می تواند داشته باشد، چیزی که با همه ی قهرمانان همینگوی هست، شکست خورده اما مغرور.
این رمان یک بار در 1332 به نام "مرد پیر و دریا" با ترجمه ی یحیوی به فارسی منتشر شده، یک...more
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message 1: by Nazila
09/02/2007 12:32PM

Nophoto-u-25x33 the only thing we can say about The Old Mdn and The Sea is it is the masterpiece ever written about grace under pressure.
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