你們對老人與海的評價是什麼？

老人與海，評價

可以和梅爾維爾的《白鯨》和福克納的《熊》相提並論的不朽佳作。海明威為了證明自己的寫作生涯還沒到盡頭，寫出了這個在他腦海中醞釀多年卻遲遲沒有付諸筆端的精彩故事。《老人與海》與《喪鐘為誰而鳴》相隔12年，海明威的功力非但沒有下滑，還提升到了新的境界。

海明威自認這是他最滿意的作品：

I know that it is the best I can write ever for all of my life, I think, and that it destroys good and able work by being placed alongside of it.

連宿敵·福克納都不禁稱讚《老人與海》是海明威最好的小說：

His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries. This time, he discovered God, a Creator. Until now, his men and women had made themselves, shaped themselves out of their own clay; their victories and defeats were at the hands of each other, just to prove to themselves or one another how tough they could be. But this time, he wrote about pity: about something somewhere that made them all: the old man who had to catch the fish and then lose it, the fish that had to be caught and then lost, the sharks which had to rob the old man of his fish; made them all and loved them all and pitied them all. It』s all right. Praise God that whatever made and loves and pities Hemingway and me kept him from touching it any further.

寫作宿敵，讀作真愛 (/// ? ///)

《老人與海》的語言精鍊至極，又簡單好懂。沒什麼細節，又能把情境描述得活靈活現。這才是大家手筆。就算是長句子也是直來直去，信息量滿滿，沒有亂七八糟的廢話。隨便摘一段感受一下：

In the dark, the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff wings made as they soared away in the darkness. He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

我第一次讀這本書的時候覺得風格和今天的作家好像啊，後來才知道今天這種英語寫作風格根本就是海明威、福克納等人在一戰後奠定的。