英语翻译Although the novella helped to regenerate Hemingway’s wi

英语翻译
Although the novella helped to regenerate Hemingway’s wilting career,it has since been met by divided critical opinion.While some critics have praised The Old Man and the Sea as a new classic that takes its place among such established American works as William Faulkner’s short story “The Bear” and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick,others have attacked the story as “imitation Hemingway” and find fault with the author’s departure from the uncompromising realism with which he made his name.
Because Hemingway was a writer who always relied heavily on autobiographical sources,some critics,not surprisingly,eventually decided that the novella served as a thinly veiled attack upon them.According to this reading,Hemingway was the old master at the end of his career being torn apart by—but ultimately triumphing over—critics on a feeding frenzy.But this reading ultimately reduces The Old Man and the Sea to little more than an act of literary revenge.The more compelling interpretation asserts that the novella is a parable about life itself,in particular man’s struggle for triumph in a world that seems designed to destroy him.
Despite the soberly life-affirming tone of the novella,Hemingway was,at the end of his life,more and more prone to debilitating bouts of depression.He committed suicide in 1961 in Ketchum,Idaho.

虽然该篇小说使得Hemingway黯淡的写作生涯得以复生,然而从那开始起它就遇到了批判性的评论.一些评论家称赞The Old Man and the Sea是一部新的经典之作,它取代了已有的美国文学小说作品中像William Faulkner的短篇小“The Bear ”还有Herman Melville’s 的“Moby-Dick”的位置；而还有些评论家他们攻击这个故事是个冒牌的Hemingway之作,他们发现作者脱离了“不妥协的现实主义”这一思想,而Hemingway正是凭借这一思想得以成名.
由于Hemingway是个经常严重依赖于自传素材的作家,所以,无怪乎,有些评论家,最终认为,该小说是对他们 “披着薄纱”的攻击.据这样的理解,Hemingway是他职业生涯最后的赢家,尽管他的职业被评论家们撕裂的残破不堪,可是最终他获得对评论家们的疯狂完胜.而这样的理解最终对于The Old Man and the Sea是文字的报复的认同变得极少了.更加另人信服的解释断言该小说是生活本身的一个寓言,就如人活在世上为苦苦挣扎获得成功,而这个世界似乎设计好了要毁了他.
尽管该小说是以乐观而严肃的语调来写的,而Hemingway,在他生命的末期,越来越倾向于表现出日渐衰弱的抑郁状态.1961年,他在达荷州•凯彻姆自杀了.