The Nobelprize winning book: The old man and the sea, has been written by Ernest Hemingway and was published in 1982, though the original American print had been published in 1952. The title is exactly what the book is about. It is a short story. The story is written in one continuous whole and is written from the view of the writer, it is very realistic. The description of the setting are the dominating factor in this book. The author spends a lot of time, for describing the sea, and what takes place. There are a lot of dialogues in...
to teach the reader, that not everything has to be perfect. That"s the poirnt he attacks to. His first two books are: Stories and Ten Poems and In our time, but it was the novel, The Torrents of Spring, which established his name more widely. He also wrote the books: Fiesta, A Farewell to Arms, To have and Have Not, Men Without Women, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, The fifth Column And more. Seven years before he died, in 1954, he was awarded the Nobelprize, for The old man and the sea.