The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
An old Cuban fisherman, eighty-four days without a fish, rows out alone and hooks something enormous.
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's sentences are plain and firm, and they leave you room to feel what the characters won't say. Start with «The Old Man and the Sea», a short, spare book about an old fisherman alone on the water, or with «A Moveable Feast», his memoir of being young and broke in Paris, where the cold, the hunger and the work all come through clearly.
Feels like nature, love and memory.
Start with The Old Man and the Sea.
Hemingway wrote the book in Cuba and Bimini in 1951; it ran in full in a single issue of Life, which sold over five million copies in two days.
The difference between calling the sea a woman and calling it an enemy.
He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboats bought when the shark lovers had much money, spoke of her as el mar, which is masculine, they spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine, as something that gave or withheld great favors. If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought. Books by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway, 1964
Hemingway's posthumous memoir of 1920s Paris: cheap oysters, cold wine, Cézanne in the Luxembourg, and the making of a writer.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway, 1940
An American dynamiter has days to blow a mountain bridge and has just fallen in love, in a war where every stranger's death is your own.
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