... was published. As the enduring interest in the text might indicate, there are a variety of different readings of the novella. It has, for instance, been read as a Christian Allegory, a Nietzchean parable of overcoming, a Freudian dream of Oedipal wish fulfillment, and a Humanist saga of triumph in the face of absurdity. In light of these radical disagreements in opinion, the diversity of viewpoints ... ...

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... . Some feel that Santiago's memory of lions playing on beach symbolizes another time or world. Philip Young offers an answer to this question when he suggests that "the novel is a parable, but one for life itself, and thus readers who search for other allegorical meaning inevitably reduce the grandeur of the text." This context was once brought up in a 1958 interview ... ...

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