? As the saying goes, "slow work makes fine work." After 15 years of gestation, the old man and the sea were born! This novel was first published in Life Weekly published by 1952.9. 1 The magazine sold 5.3 million copies in two days. The publishing house printed 50 thousand copies for the first time and was snapped up within a week. 1952 won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, which is the highest prize in American domestic literature. The following year, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature again!

? Hemingway, who is in his fifties, is aging rapidly due to years of hard work. He has severe hypertension and often has tinnitus. In the last ten years of his life, he always wanted to relive the past. He returned to Africa and Spain.

? 1954 438+0. Hemingway and his wife and friends went to Uganda by a small single-engine plane. Hemingway's plane crashed in a primitive jungle to see the extraordinary momentum of the Nile. A few days later, they rented a light plane to Uganda, but the plane crashed on the ground and exploded shortly after taking off. People thought Hemingway was dead, but unexpectedly, they suddenly appeared! Hemingway was lying in a hospital bed, reading with interest the obituaries published in newspapers and magazines and reports about himself.

? Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature brought great glory to Hemingway, which indicated that he had reached the peak of his career. But his pressure is also coming. He said, "No ghost who has won Nobel Prize in Literature has written anything worth reading in the future." Hemingway's life in his later years seems to confirm his words. Concussion, hypertension, diabetes, and skin diseases followed, and the body went from bad to worse. He drank a lot of wine in order to overcome his illness. The more he drinks, the worse his writing energy becomes.

? The autobiographical novel Island in Rapids, written almost at the same time as The Old Man and the Sea, was not compiled and published by his wife Mary until after the author's death 1970. His memoir "The Flowing Holy Festival" written on 1957- 1960 was also postponed until 1964 to meet the readers, which can be said to be the last swan song of this literary master's creative career! This book once again set off "Hemingway fever".

? The most unfortunate thing happened. 1960 Hemingway was seriously insane. He is on tenterhooks all day. Whenever a stranger appeared, he thought that the FBI agent was following him. He also suspected that there was a bug in the room, and he had constant nightmares at night, which made him particularly nervous. A few months later, he looked pale and walked like an old man in his eighties and nineties.

? Hemingway very much agreed with the German philosopher Nietzsche's creed: "Die at the right time! A person who has completed his mission in life will die with honor. " If he can live with dignity, he is willing to live. When he is no longer considered as ernest hemingway, he would rather die.

? 196 1.6.30. His wife Mary accompanied him from the hospital to his apartment in Idaho. At 7 o'clock on July 2, Hemingway put on his favorite scarlet "Emperor" robe and went downstairs. He made up his mind not to wake Mary. He took out his favorite silver double-barreled shotgun, put the muzzle in his mouth and pulled two bolts at the same time. ...

? Hemingway left in a hurry, leaving people with endless sadness and regret.