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Title: Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alistair McEwen ISBN: 0375703950 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8
Rating: 5
Summary: Enigmatic and amazing. Ocean blue. Pure.
Comment: -Sometimes I wonder what are we waiting for. -For it to be too late, madame.
I have read OCEANO MARE in its original language, but the grammatic is so clear that the translation can easily keep the beauty of Baricco's writing. It recalls the style fo the naturalists fo the XIX century. It is an original story. There are differents settings that runs parallel and then blend together. Several characters with different stories find a personal meaning in the ocean that can be either terrible or beautiful, gentle of furios, can carry joy oy death. A group of men abandoned on a boat; two men that look for the end or the beginning of the sea; storytellers that comes from the waves; lovers walking on the beach; children that know more than adults about everything; they are all connected to the ocean sea somehow. The book is strong and delicate. It goes beyond the love and hate human feel for the sea, it is a story that goes deep in the human soul, it is a rappresentation of the most secret desires, that goes beyond rational thinking. Enigmatic and pure. OCean blue. I loved it.
Rating: 5
Summary: SEEING THE SEA
Comment: Some never see it. The sea in their heart. But never mind, those who see it still have books. But they also have troubles sometimes. And as I, you have never seen Ocean Sea of this fabulous Italian author of whom you've never heard, until a handsome woman, your teacher Drama at the local Academy, tells you they are going to bring on stage some novel called Ocean Sea, written by a certain Baricco (who ? never heard of ? very difficult, shakespeare-like I presume, everyone yells). And then you read it, and you really see the sea. Experiencing it on scene makes it even worse : escaping this yearning feeling to tell everyone you meet they absolutely must read this book becomes impossible. And in every letter you write to your many pals, you can't stop mentioning Plasson, the painter who wants to leave his canvas white but not blanco, or others. This story is all about puzzles : pieces coming together and breaking up. It's about leaving things undefined. It's about the sea : you can dive in it, you get a little bit wet, but you can't breath under the sea, unless you wear an O2-mask, and even then. Some books take you up in the air and leave you there. Some put you down to the ground and under it. This one makes you feel alive and you keep reading it. This one you want to share with your best friends. And you would even want to e-mail on it. But you will never give it away. I promise !
Rating: 5
Summary: Really worth reading
Comment: I think this is probably the best book I have ever read. Actually, I have read everything by Baricco more than once (in Italian, since this is my mother language), but Ocean sea is by far his most impressive work. I mean, it is poetry turned into prose. That's not easy to explain. At the very beginning, the reader seems to be wandering in the middle of nowhere, but then he starts understanding that he's following a hidden path. It's like a puzzle, you never see anything clear until you get to the end, but when you do, it is just as if you had found a treasure. While reading, you are under the spell of something quite strange, something that puts you in touch with yourself, with your life somehow. The feeling is the one of being in the middle of a painting by Dalì or Magritte: something seeming supernatural, superreal, but that is in fact incredibly true and near. It touches you so deep within that it takes you to a higher level, where everything gets meaningful and where one's rediscovers his sensitivity. Baricco's style is perfect, too. The fact is that he's really good at telling stories, and I am sorry for those who couldn't listen to him live on TV or in theatres. As for the book anyway, it would be a pity to miss it. Most people think it has been written after Silk (a masterpiece, too, but completely different). I just wanted to point out this is untrue, since he wrote it later. But worth reading as well.
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Title: Silk by Alessandro Baricco, Guido Waldman ISBN: 0375703829 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Merchant of Marvels and the Peddler of Dreams by Frederic Clement, Emma Cole ISBN: 0811816648 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hippolyte's Island by Barbara Hodgson ISBN: 0811828921 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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