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• 完璧な作品、優れた文学は必ず待っていてくれることを実感

  レビューのどこかに書いたが、僕にとって、アーネスト ヘミングウェイは特別な作家だ。 20年以上、最も好きな作家で、読み直すたびに、さらに好きになっていく。 ただ、「老人と海」は今まで原文で一回、そして日本語で本の半分までを一回読んでいるが、 実は、あまり良い印象を持っていなかった。 今回、「The Old Man and the Sea」をaudible.comからdownloadしてきた名優Donald Sutherlandの朗読を聞きながら読んだが、 実にすばらしい朗読で、ほれぼれとして、また、文章のどこにも無駄がなく、海と自然と人間を描き切っていることに気付かされた。 読み終えた後、作品の描写が心に与えた印象はあまりにもrealityがあり、 僕の記憶の中では、自分の実体験の一部になってしまい、現実か読書か判別できない、そんな状態になった。 作品の感想については、いろいろな意見があると思うが、自然の美しさと諸行無常と諸法無我それに一切皆苦、 そして少年の存在が、港につき自分の小屋で昏々と眠る老人に、戦士の休息をあたえ、 静かで、すがすがしい読後感を与えていると思う。 「老人と海」、こんな素晴らしい、完璧な作品だったのですね。 ヘミングウェイは、大切なことを隠すという、いわゆるIceberg theoryを作品に用いた作家で、 引き算の美学を作品に追求した人だが、彼の初期作品「in our time」に見られたように、どちらかといえば、 作品の登場人物の人間関係に活用されたtheoryが本作品では作品全体に活用されており、 すごい作品だということに今回初めて気が付いた。 優れた文学は必ず待っていてくれる、そのことを実感しました。

• rita

  この作品で、原作者(ヘミングウェイ)は、ノーベル賞を、もらいました。見応えのある作品です。映画も、あります。

• Fantastic

  Good fisherman's story. I could understand how old and lonely fisherman feel in the ocean.

• とても分かりやすい

  娘が大学生の勉強をするのに購入しました。とても分かりやすい

• ishikoro・・・

  もともと名作の朗読ですが、効果音や対話の部のみでもスピーカーが変わるとなどの演出があるとおもしろいかな。

• Good book for learning English

  I read this book to improve my English reading skills. I have score on TOEIC 885 and TOEFL for 72. And found out this book is hard to read. So I recommend read this book on their own language to the person who studies English. It little difficult even though read in my own language. But it worth to read many times. In US this novel is for junior high school, so it good to understand your English skills compare to natives.

• misprint

  kindle版で読みましたが dose → close, bow →howなどscanした時に起こりやすいエラーあり。英語力のないものには面白いチャレンジも出来ました。

• ヘミングウェイは英文で

  英語の文章でないとヘミングウェイが見えてこない。

• YOU are the Fisherman !

  I’ve always believed that the best stories ever written are those that sever the veil (screen) upon which our seeming lives are temporarily projected. Through the hole/tear we see an eye looking in, and lo, it is our own! This story is about ambition, love, resistance, resilience, acceptance, and ultimate triumph, but not in the way that the conditioned mind would expect or tend to think. This beautiful little story reminded me of a time when I thought that I’d caught my own big fish. I’d been hired by a prestigious company that promised to turn my life around. As soon as they hired me, I was able to purchase a fully loaded, top of the line luxury vehicle. The latest model. Something that had never happened in my life. My first car had been a used, Orange 1973 Volkswagen Beetle. Which left me stranded more times than I can remember. And the nice thing was that the company that hired me gave me a car allowance that well exceeded my car payment! The company issued me a beautiful smart phone to conduct business, the latest model. Nothing but the best. and furnished me with all of the office supplies that I could ever want or need. They paid for my airfare and hotel stays when traveling, and had a rule that I could never stay in hotels that ran under $140 a night. They had a reputation to uphold! They paid for all of my meals when traveling and even paid for the entertainment that I had to furnish to my top buyers, from my top accounts! In other words, I got paid to take my buyers golfing and seven to strip clubs, as some preferred. I was making more than four times what I made before and the company even paid for my relocation to the most beautiful state that I’ve even stepped foot on — Oregon. I had many accounts scattered along the breath-taking Oregon coast, which I loved to call on, because it meant spending a few nights in hotels just steps from the water. Eating fresh seafood while marveling at the in and out breaths of the mighty Sea. However, like Santiago in the story of The Old Man and the Sea, I became tethered to this huge fish. It was so big that it took me wherever it wanted. And my life became a tempest of temporal highs interspersed with tremendous pressures. Since I had never made so much money before, I began to spend as if I was a millionaire! As if money was infinite rather than finite. Little by little, the sharp teeth of sharks all around me began to eat away at my big fish and I couldn’t do anything about it. My great joy began to dwindle, daily. Eventually, when I could take it no more, I emailed my letter of resignation and sailed back home with only a carcass of a fish. My company t-shirts, my samples, office equipment, etc. I loved the way that Hemingway was able to express deep emotion with few and simple words. Like when the boy, who loved the old man, cried because he’d seen the wounds in the old man’s palms. Battle scars from the tussle he’d undergone with the big fish at sea. I loved how Hemingway pulled me into the old man’s mind. The reasoning process and respect that he’d developed for the giant fish. The flavor of wisdom that comes with age. I’m not old yet, but I certainly identified with the old man’s spirit. When he arrived back home, there was this sense of redemption that radiated from him. This sense of acceptance of life as it is. You get this sense that a deep change had taken place within him. That he no longer gave as much importance to the things that can be taken away, but to the things that last, that matter, that heal the soul and heart — like the Purity and innocence of unconditional love, symbolized by the boy.

• Scam - the actual contents is a different book

  The cover claims that the book is Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," but when I opened it up, the actual contents is "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich - a Christian text. I guess Benediction Classics is running some sort of religious scam, trying to trick people into reading Christian texts by any means necessary.

• Great book

  I can understand why this book is so well renowned and the length off it make for a very easy read too.

• Sobre idas e vindas

  Esse livro é simplesmente maravilhoso! A história é excelente e a relação do velho com o menino me fez refletir demais. Fala sobre as idas e vindas da vida, é uma metáfora sobre viver uma vida com riscos, uma história de redenção. Além disso, é uma leitura perfeita para quem quer aprender inglês, as palavras "diferentes" possuem um índice explicando o que elas significam e se você clica em cima delas, há um dicionário. É muito bem ilustrado e há no final dele umas perguntas excelentes para fazer com crianças.

• Good read

  Great prose. The writer sort of almost inconsiderately seems to use so many fishing related words but it works.

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