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The Old Man and the Sea: The Story Before the Story
(Old Man Discussions:)
1. The Story
Before the Story
2. The Simple
Story
3. Critics,
Symbolism, Shit
In 1928, Ernest Hemingway moved to Key West, Florida. He loved the Gulf and the Sea, and
immediately took to the fishing, learned to catch the great fish that lived in the Gulf
Stream.
Hemingway spent intermittent years in Key West during the 1930's, also spending time hunting
big game in Africa. In 1937, he went to Spain to report the Spanish Civil War for the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
When Hemingway returned from Spain, he moved to Havana, Cuba, where he began For Whom the Bell Tolls (see
discussion). For Whom the Bell Tolls was widely acclaimed by writers, readers,
critics, and even by the same Pulitzer Prize committee who refused to issue Hemingway their
Prize for political reasons (damn conservatives) as an instant classic--far and away the the
best piece of literature produced in 1940.
But after the publication and success of For Whom the Bell
Tolls, Ernest Hemingway was unable to produce any successful, lengthy work, and in 1950,
when he finally published Across the River and Into the Trees, criticssoundly and
thoroughly criticized Hemingway's writing and structural integrity--even to the extent of
believing him finished as a writer.
In 1952, however, Ernest Hemingway published his novella, The Old Man and the Sea, which
instantly resurrected his status among the literary elite: For The Old Man and the Sea,
Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953; and then, in 1954, the masterpiece
led to the ultimate prize: the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(Old Man Discussions:)
1. The Story Before the Story
2. The Simple
Story
3. Critics,
Symbolism, Shit
Taboo Monkey on Three Novels:
1. The Sun Also
Rises
2. A Farewell to
Arms
3. For Whom the
Bell Tolls
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