Alessandro Baricco: Ocean Sea
- Yhteenveto
- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Vintage
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780375703959
- Lisätiedot
- Katseltu: 136 krt
- Suosituksia: 5 kpl
- Toiminnot
- Sinä suosittelet ★
- Adlibris ♥
- Antikvaari ♥
- Antikvariaatti.net ♥
Kuvaus (263 sanaa, lukemiseen kuluu n. minuutti)
'Exotic…erotic… Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical. '--The New York Times Book ReviewWith Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom. 'Ocean Sea has the air of a long-established classic. '--Salon 'Alessandro Baricco is a novelist who weaves words into a fabric as delicate as Venetian lace. '--Chicago Tribune'The remarkable Baricco is artistic kin to his compatriot, Roberto Calasso. Both are originals; both weave patterns of myth and human story and the airy and earthly connections between them. ' --Los Angeles Times