一个人并不是生来要被打败的,你尽可把他消灭掉,可就是打不败他。——《老人与海》
海明威是20世纪美国著名的小说家,一向以文坛硬汉著称。
他的第一部长篇小说《太阳照样升起》问世后就博得当时世人的喝彩,成为那一代人的典范之作;1954年,“因为他精通于叙事艺术,突出地表现在他的近著《老人与海》之中”,海明威获得诺贝尔文学奖。
接下来,我结合原著,摘抄其中的一部分小细节,来说说我的读后感受。
He was an old man who Fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
他是个独自在湾流中的一条小船上钓鱼的老人,已经84天了,一条鱼也没捕着。
【读后感】文章开篇即引出了故事的主人公——老人圣地亚哥,作者还把老人近期内捕鱼的情况作了概述——已经很久没有捕到鱼了。
好的作品总是能够在开篇,就给读者带来足够的想象空间:小船,老者,84天没有收获,独自在湾流……仅此一句,就提示了整篇小说的主题、矛盾、困扰、气氛、张力,隐隐约约,我们还能感受到作家在这本小说里可能要体现的主要风格:倔强、顽强、不屈与拼搏。
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.
老人消瘦、憔悴,脖颈上有深深的皱纹。腮帮上有些褐斑,那是太阳在热带海面上的反光所造成的良性皮肤癌变。
The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
褐斑从他脸的两侧一直蔓延下去,他的双手常用绳索拉大鱼,留下了很深的伤疤。但是这些伤疤中没有一块是新的,它们像无鱼可打的沙漠中被侵蚀的地方一样古老。
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
他身上的一切都显得古老,除了那双眼睛,它们像海水一样蓝,喜气洋洋而不服输。
【读后感】通过细腻的肖像描写,脖颈、腮帮、皮肤,尤其是通过对老人长满深深疤痕双手的特写,刻画出了一位饱经风霜却又精神饱满的老渔夫形象,交代了老人的沧桑与不屈。
最后落笔在眼睛,更是起到了画龙点睛的作用,更加突出了他的主要性格特征。