Oceano Mare : das Märchen vom Wesen des Meeres

by Alessandro Baricco

Other authorsErika Cristiani (Translator)

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

853.914

Genres

General Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

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Publication

München : Piper, 2001. 3. Aufl., Taschenbuch, 276 S.

Description

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--"The New York Times Book Review" With 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.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member LoMa

Odd and haunting, sometimes terrifying, novel that centers around an artist and his obsessive relationship with the sea - the sea is at the center of all his relationships. Highly lyrical and evocative, with a mysterious air.

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LibraryThing member debnance

For me, I've had to read and then reread each page, and still I'm not terribly sure I understand this book! My best explanation of the plot: A group of diverse people all look for answers and healing from the sea.

LibraryThing member axya

sentimentally charming

LibraryThing member Peppuzzo

I did not love you because of boredom, or solitude, or whim. I loved you because desiring you was stronger than any happiness. And I knew that after all life is not big enough to hold together all desire can imagine. But I didn’t try to stop myself or stop you.

LibraryThing member Peppuzzo

I did not love you because of boredom, or solitude, or whim. I loved you because desiring you was stronger than any happiness. And I knew that after all, life is not big enough to hold together all desire can imagine. But I didn’t try to stop myself or stop you.

LibraryThing member stef7sa

A philosophical fable about the anomaly in the world that man is: people disturb, act, are guilty of betrayal and murder, suffer, die, tell stories and lies, while nature, represented by the sea, is impassive, eternal, perfect. I find it difficult to follow all Baricco's philosophical hints and do

not like his style very much. It is overwrought, unnatural and does not clarify, it just complicates the reading process.

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LibraryThing member Rdra1962

Really tough book to read, Labelled post modern fiction on the cover, I found it more like magical realism with a lot of pertinent details left to the imagination. The author evokes stunning images, but the story lines are very hard to follow. Each character had an intriguing reason for coming to

an Inn by the sea. Each seems to be searching for answers, cures, and yet their stories are incomplete. I found this to be a very frustrating read.

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