Remembering Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961). Hemingway achieved world-wide fame and influence as a writer by a combination of great emotional power and a highly individual style, which could be parodied but never successfully imitated. His best single work is quite possibly “The Old Man and the Sea,” which had the essence of the uncluttered force that drove his other stories.
In 1952, the 53 year-old Hemingway shrugged off the decay of his own weary, abused body, an increasingly scarred mind, and the pulsating aches of his five tools of anguished expression to compose his tale of an old Cuban who battles his own decay, a crippled left hand, and a giant marlin. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and was specifically cited when he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1997, 40 year-old Alexander Petrov of Prechistoe, Russia, struggled against a strange environment (Canada), a new and intimidating technology (IMAX), and with the use of his finger tips, transformed Hemingway’s ode to masculinity from splashes of oil paint into a vibrant, coherent, fresco in motion. Petrov’s 22-minute paint-on-glass interpretation of “The Old Man and the Sea” won many awards, including the 1999 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the award-winning animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/ernest-hemingway-the-old-man-and-the...
In 1952, the 53 year-old Hemingway shrugged off the decay of his own weary, abused body, an increasingly scarred mind, and the pulsating aches of his five tools of anguished expression to compose his tale of an old Cuban who battles his own decay, a crippled left hand, and a giant marlin. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and was specifically cited when he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1997, 40 year-old Alexander Petrov of Prechistoe, Russia, struggled against a strange environment (Canada), a new and intimidating technology (IMAX), and with the use of his finger tips, transformed Hemingway’s ode to masculinity from splashes of oil paint into a vibrant, coherent, fresco in motion. Petrov’s 22-minute paint-on-glass interpretation of “The Old Man and the Sea” won many awards, including the 1999 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the award-winning animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/ernest-hemingway-the-old-man-and-the...
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Hi queenofit,
I hope you enjoy this. Thanks for your comments.
Best wishes to you.
- 11 months ago
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queenofit
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One of my favorite writers of all time. Thanks for this posting.
- 11 months ago
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