A dispassionate advice to all those who are interested in the world of fishing and reading ... a literary classic: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway).
Plot: After
eighty-four days during which failed to catch anything, the old Santiago lives in his village and towards himself, his state of isolation of those who was hit by a curse. Only the solidarity of the young Manolo and the legendary example of Joe DiMaggio, baseball player unbeatable, allow us to find the strength to put to sea for fishing renewing his apprenticeship as a fisherman and seals the symbolic initiation. In a desperate hunt for a giant swordfish in the Caribbean, in the fight, almost literally with his bare hands, against the shark that bit by bit to tear its prey, leaving only the symbol of victory and defeat meledizione, Santiago down, perhaps for the first time, a true fellowship with the uncontrollable forces of nature and, above all, finds within itself the sign and the presence of his courage, the justification of a lifetime.
At the end of his career as a writer Ernest Hemingway tackles the key themes of his work in the symbolic framework of an epic individual, and also recounts the great literary models, as Moby Dick, made only American literature.
