📔 The Old Man and The Sea - 노인과 바다

 

 

📕  The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

 

 

There was a time I was crazy about Hemingway and I devoured his books. He's a master of his own writing style of hard-boiled and no other than a Nobel laureate.  No one can deny he is one of the greatest novelists of the century. 

 

 

 

When it comes to his life, will there be anyone else who could ever have such a dramatic life as Hemingway? He is the one who went through the turbulent times of wars in the 1920s to '50s,  a few of which he participated as an ambulence driver or a journalist. Definitely the two works, 'Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell tolls' must have been the products of his experiences in the wars. He must have been an activist prior to a writer who was willing to voluntarily jump into reality. It was when he was just 19  that he volunteered for an ambulance unit.

 

His private life is as interesting. He married four women and kept moving from one place to another. He stayed in Paris in his early 20s and in Cuba in his later life. He made out of the two distinct lives his masterpieces, 'A Moveable Feast' and  'The Old Man and The Sea', respectively. What I like about the former is there are a couple of episodes with his fellow writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'. He was a contemporary writer and a close friend of Hemingway's. 

 

 'The Old Man and The Sea' which gave him a Nobel Prize is a story about not only a friendship between an old fisherman and a boy but also a man's persistence of struggling with a marlin with dignity. 

 

The old man wins the fight against the giant fish but ends up back home with nothing but its head and bones attached to his humble skiff after letting sharks eat up the flesh on the way back. It is never another bad luck after the eighty-four days of no luck he was going through. Rather it's a token or symbol of what he has accomplished all against the odds as an experienced lifetime fisherman.

 

 

 

If someone says life is beautiful, I'd love to say so it's not because of its great end results but because of all the struggle in the process we put just like the old fisherman does. 

 

We are all struggling with a pandemic we've never experienced before. Some have lost their jobs or places to live and more horribly some are having a hard time after losing their beloved. I've also closed my business and tossed and turned for so many nights. Nevertheless, life goes on. And most of us are doing our best where we are supposed to.  Even though the dark tunnel is so deep and long that a streak of light doesn't seem to welcome me,  we still have the last luck called 'hope' left in our own pandora's box.  

 

 

 

The Old Man and the Sea (Paperback)외국도서저자 : 어니스트 헤밍웨이(Ernest Miller Hemingway),Hemingway, Ernest출판 : Scribner Book Company 1995.05.05상세보기

 

 

 

 

<노인과 바다>는 헤밍웨이에게 노벨상을 안겨준 작품이다. 

 

100여 페이지 정도 되는 비교적 짧은 중편 소설로 원서로 읽기에 부담이 없어 보인다. 

 

고기잡이와 관련된 생소한 어휘들이 두루 포진해 있기 때문에

 

이 분야의 어휘와 표현을 익힐 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 

 

 

 

⛵  고기잡이 도구

 

• skiff   소형 보트
• gaff   갈고리
• harpoon   작살 
• lance   긴 창
• sail   돛
• oar   노
• rudder   배의 키
• tiller   키의 손잡이
• bow   뱃머리, 이물  ↔ stern 
• stern  선미 (배의 끝)
• crosstree    돛대 꼭대기의 가로장

 

 

🐟 어류

• marlin   청새치
• sardine   정어리
• bonito   가다랑어
• albacore   날개다랑어
• mako   청상아리
• blue runner   블루 러너 (전갱이류)
• yellow jack   갈전갱이류
• flying fish   날치
• porpoise   알락돌고래
• shark   상어
• tiburon   상어의 일종
• barracudas    꼬치 고기류
• stingray   노랑 가오리

 

 

🌱 too green    (물고기가) 지치지 않고 힘이 넘치는

• You nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. (내가 잡아올린 그 물고기가 너무 힘이 넘쳐서 네가 죽을 뻔했지. 그리고 보트를 부숴버리는 줄 알았어.)

 

 

 

 

 

To be continued...🙂