Details Books As Ocean Sea
| Original Title: | Oceano mare |
| ISBN: | 0375703950 (ISBN13: 9780375703959) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Professor Ismael Adelante Ismael Bartleboom, Elisewin Carewall, Ann Deveria, Father Pluche, Dr. Savigny, Adams, Dira, Michael Plasson, Dood, Ditz, Dol |
| Setting: | Almayer Inn |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Viareggio (1993) |
Alessandro Baricco
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 4.12 | 14399 Users | 875 Reviews
List About Books Ocean Sea
| Title | : | Ocean Sea |
| Author | : | Alessandro Baricco |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2000 by Vintage (first published March 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Contemporary. Cultural. Italy |
Interpretation Concering Books Ocean Sea
This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.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.
Rating About Books Ocean Sea
Ratings: 4.12 From 14399 Users | 875 ReviewsAssess About Books Ocean Sea
Imagine the most perfect bite of the most decadent dish melting in your mouth and giving you indescribable pleasure.... Imagine the most harmonic melody caressing your ear... Imagine a picture so perfect that you find yourself in it... This is the kind of prose you have the pleasure devouring!"Ocean Sea" is a picture painted with words, that has its own melody to it. It's the finest poetry in form of a novel. The main character here is The Sea - doctor, killer, God... Every now and then peopleAnd the award for getting me out of my comfort zone goes to Alessandro Baricco! I have never read anything written by him (and Im not sure I will in the near future) but this little thing was like a breath of (somewhat) fresh air. Yes, yes, yes, its about the sea, the overwhelming, powerful, healing, cruel, regenerating etc. sea. And about the not so original idea of bringing a bunch of unknown, totally different people together. And how the sea is their friend or nemesis, how it all starts
One of my fave books ever. Baricco, you either love him or hate him, there's no inbetween. I don't know how this particular edition (I own the original, in Italian), so I can't really vouch for the translation, but the Italian version caught my breath away. You laugh and you cry, you smile and you hurt, and smile again. The beginning is confusing because of Baricco's peculiar writing style *and* the plot... well, let's face it, the plot *is* weird, but it's a good kind of weird imho. Just give
I wish I could give this book at least 7 stars, what a book and what a writer!! unique book from a genius writer, nothing resemble it, you can't call yourself interested in literatures without reading this, and anyone who didn't readied it yet, is missing a great deal of culture.
- In an indefinite era- A boarding house at the edge of the world- Seven bedrooms- Seven characters, cast away from life, met the sea and remained marked by it- Strange children like guardian angels haunt the house and it's guests' souls.All are looking for something balanced on the ocean.The book tells themListening them we ear the sea's voice, we stay hanging on their every word, and on the moves of these beautiful peoples, brave and naive.They hope to domisticate the world, to rough it's
i will tell very few people to read this book, but it's my favorite.
Baricco was the first writer to taught me how to read books as poetry. This is one of those books that makes you want to keep reading it all the time because the feeling you get from each sentence is like an emotional punch in the face. The characters come from some different world where nostalgia is present, pointless efforts are the most logical thing that one can think of and pain has a healing sense. Overwhelming is the only word I can think of to start to describe it, but to finish it would
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