<![CDATA[Ocean Sea]]>

false <![CDATA[Ocean Sea]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172694542m/208631.jpg 208631 27 In Alessandro Baricco's celebrated debut, it was silk that exerted a fatal attraction. This time it's the ocean, whose watery charms cause an entire cast of characters to convene at the isolated Almayer Inn. The guests include a seductress, an eccentric professor, and a painter with a pronounced penchant for metaphysics. They're soon joined by the beautiful young daughter of a local aristocrat, who's been stricken with a mysterious illness. In a sense, however, all these characters are suffering from maladies--psychological, existential, erotic--which makes the Almayer Inn a kind of Magic Mountain with beachfront footage. The author is a renowned opera critic in his native Italy. Perhaps this accounts for his love of linguistic arias, which can overpower the plot of Ocean Sea. When Baricco gets rolling, of course, his intricately worked prose is a delight. Even the inn itself, situated alone on a promontory, gets the red carpet treatment: "So alone it was there, it seemed a thing forgotten. It was almost as if a procession of inns, of every kind and vintage, had passed by there one day, skirting the coast, when, out of tiredness, one had detached itself from the rest, and, as its travelling companions filed past, it decided to stop on that slight rise, yielding to its own weakness, bowing its head and waiting for the end." At his best, Baricco recalls Italo Calvino--there's the same pleasure in elegant riddles and rococo storytelling. Here and there the narrative of Ocean Sea vanishes down a dead end, and the author's weakness for typographical trickery doesn't help. Still, Baricco's novel remains a refreshing dunk in what Christina Stead called "the ocean of story"--and a brainy exploration of the littoral truth. --Bob Brandeis 3103117 1993 Ocean Sea total:453|5:191|4:149|3:75|2:22|1:14| 453 1843 622 58 5 0 false false Wed Oct 22 12:15:43 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 03:26:04 -0800 2008
Au bord de l'océan, à la pension Almayer, "posée sur la corniche ultime du monde", se croisent sept personnages au destin étrange et romanesque, sept naufragés de la vie qui tentent de recoller les morceaux de leur existence. Mais leur séjour ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 14:11:05 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:35:06 -0700 2009 Silk. The first chapter describes a painter painting an invisible picture of the sea using sea water. Because he's trying to capture the beauty that can't be seen. Baricco's lyrical pr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 14:41:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 03:36:36 -0700 2009
7 people, Ocean Sea (it deserves capital letters), and Baricco who put literature on another level. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 11:53:37 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:11:36 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 02:24:59 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:11:12 -0800 2008 1
Normally I would start a review with a summary of the plot, but having only read "Ocean Sea" once, I don't feel competent to summarise it. Suffice it to say that some characters get together at a hotel by the sea, and there's a chap painting the sea with sea-water, a woman w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 22:32:34 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 13 20:25:38 -0800 2008 Penulis : Alessandro Baricco
Penerjemah : Nadiah Alwi
Penyunting : Yus Ariyanto
Penerbit : Dastan Books
Cetakan I, September 2006
436 hal.; 11 x 18 cm

Novel karya penulis Italia ini bercerita tentang sekelompok orang yang mengin...more...]]> 4 0 true false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 29 01:11:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 01:15:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 26 22:07:06 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 22:08:20 -0700 2007 Hanya saja, meskipun keda...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Jun 15 12:13:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 12:13:55 -0700 2009
A wonderful story about what the sea means and symbolises, with scenes of great humour and surrealism. It'...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 25 22:12:19 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 22:12:30 -0700 2009 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
...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Wed Jan 07 08:46:18 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 08:49:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 16:03:41 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 20:13:59 -0700 2008 I really enjoyed this. I read the Italian and English versions side by side, and since this is not a book that r...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 06 10:26:56 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 26 10:57:54 -0700 2009
Reading this felt like standing on a perfectly...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Thu Jun 07 03:33:35 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 16:29:05 -0700 2007
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 smi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu May 07 16:17:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:20:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Dec 22 18:51:06 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 07:18:52 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 23:15:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 04:52:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 09:21:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:13:57 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 14:12:23 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Mar 31 12:18:26 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 12:18:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 12 20:36:38 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 20:36:58 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=208631