中篇小说《老人与海》出版于20世纪50年代初,作者是欧内斯特·海明威,也是世界文学史上最著名的作品之一,小说讲述了古巴渔夫桑提亚哥在大海中历经艰难捕捉大鱼的故事。《老人与海》出版后给海明威带来众多荣誉,其中最重要的是1954年的诺贝尔文学奖。海明威在他的小说中塑造了很多具有鲜明个性的人物形象,同时他拒绝风靡于19世纪文坛的华丽冗繁文风,而是坚持用简朴凝练的叙 The novella, “The Old Man and the Sea,” was published in the early 1950s by Ernest Hemingway and one of the most famous works in the history of world literature. The novel tells the story of how the Cuban fisherman Santiago de Cuba struggled in the ocean Catch a big fish story. The publication of The Old Man and the Sea brought many honors to Hemingway, the most important being the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his novels, Hemingway has shaped a lot of characters with distinct personalities. At the same time, he refuses to go all out to the ornate style of literary circles in the 19th century. Instead, he persists in using concise,