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El viejo y el mar (TWINS)

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144 pages, Hardcover

Published September 5, 2013

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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.

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Profile Image for Maria Andrea.
56 reviews
June 17, 2025
Gran libro en pocas páginas, la historia del viejo cazando al gran pez refleja la lucha del hombre contra la naturaleza, el complejo que existe al llegar a la vejez y finaliza con una conmovedora metáfora de como la batalla espiritual llega a ser mucho mejor que la batalla física
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18 reviews1 follower
October 26, 2024
Habla de mi abuelito según yo :')
Profile Image for Marta.
194 reviews3 followers
September 10, 2025
Un clásico que es necesario leer. Con una gran sensibilidad habla de la relación entre la naturaleza y el hombre, la vejez y la soledad. Un libro que en pocas páginas es capaz de provocar muchas emociones.
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1 review
September 26, 2024
Me gustó mucho. Una historia simple de leer, donde el azul era el azul más otro significado ajeno no se le daba.
Se notaba que el pescador era ignorante (más bien inocente), pensaba en Béisbol, en el pez, en no perder, en el pecado, en leones y en el muchacho de una manera muy ambigua. Me parecía extrañamente emocionante su manera tan simple y mecánica de pensar.
Una historia realmente conmovedora al menos para mí, y entretenida a pesar de su simple trama.
Siento que algunas cosas estaban demasiado detalladas que no iban al caso, pero aún así justo cuando te estabas aburriendo del libro ¡PAM! llega lo emocionante y la atención al texto. Fue muy divertido.
Me gustó mucho el contraste de emociones y el como pude simpatizar tan bien con el personaje. Con su manera de pensar, con sus derrotas y con sus victorias. Un muy buen libro a mi parecer..
Profile Image for Juan Santiago .
2 reviews
July 27, 2025
Con este libro, su autor ganó el Nobel y si eso no es suficiente motivación para leerlo, se debe saber lo siguiente: La trama es sencilla, un pescador caído a menos con un objetivo: enfrentarse al mar y pescar algo que justificara su oficio, pero sobre todo su propia existencia. El libro relata el viaje de nuestro héroe de la derrota, pero que sabiendose sin éxito, insiste y lucha contra sí mismo y contra el destino. Al final del viaje no hay renovación espiritual, ni triunfo ni épica, solo queda una frase retumbando en el corazón:“no debí haber ido tan mar adentro”.
Profile Image for Juan Sanabria.
74 reviews
April 17, 2025
Un poco normal, me gusta mucho las escenas que tiene el viejo al hablar consigo mismo, pero Hemingway tardó mucho en su desarrollo por centrarse en el pez, sé que aunque no tiende a ser muy importante el desarrollo del personaje, pienso que en algunas parte es muy aburrido, perdón por estas palabras.
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40 reviews
September 7, 2024
«Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con los que hay.»

Está lindo, una buena historia sobre la resiliencia y mantenerte fiel a ti mismo.
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