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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Amarezza francese Izzo e la sua Marsiglia, uno spaccato interrazziale pieno di sofferenza, umanità, solitudini. Una città dai mille volti e dalle mille storie, accogliente e spietata, una città aperta al mare, che si offre, che ferisce. Non poteva finire bene e lo si intuisce già dalle prime righe. Il tono triste e malinconico, le atmosfere cupe e l'insostenibile ingiustizia della vita in un mosaico che si compone e va in mille pezzi allo stesso tempo. I destini si incrociano per non lasciarsi mai più e forse è solo questa la misera speranza che resta ai sopravvissuti: ricominciare da quel poco ( o tanto) che resta, con una ferita in più a testimonianza di un passato con cui convivere. I like Jean-Claude Izzo and this is a good story, though as another reviewer, somewhere, noted, it's a bit much when every woman he describes is beautiful, desirable, a Siren. And--not the author's problem--after reading the Marseille trilogy, I expected this would also be a mystery. There are mysterious elements in it, but it's most definitely not a whodunit: no detective and no crime (except the vagaries of life, stealing away with possibilities). But Jean-Claude is an evocative writer, and we get Marseille again, which I like, and he has some profound things to say, so I take away one star for the too beautiful women and call this a good Izzo book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From one of France's best-known authors comes this evocative meditation on the human comedy. A freighter is impounded in the port of Marseilles when its owners declare bankruptcy. On board, the men are divided: wait for the money owed them--money that might never come--or accept their fate and abandon ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz's last commission and he is determined to save his charge and stand by his men. Diamantis, his second-in-command, is in search of a woman hehas never stopped loving and who may now be living in Marseilles. In these close quarters charged with physical and emotional tension, each of these marooned sailors' life stories begins to resemble a chapter in the complex, colorful, and tragic story of the Mediterranean Sea itself--rich with romance, legend, passion and drama. The Lost Sailorsis a richly textured and bittersweet tribute to Mediterranean life. It is the novel in which Jean Claude-Izzo most completely expresses his vision of human history and how it has been played out on the shores of this sea since the beginnings of time. This is a novel for anyone who loves the sea, for anyone who is attracted to the dark passions it can provoke, for anyone who feels drawn to the rich blend of races, religions and individual stories to be found in port cities the world over. Itis, at the same time, a story of the prodigious forces at play in all human destiny. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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> LES MARINS PERDUS, par Jean-Claude Izzo (J'ai lu, 2002, Poche, 320 pages). — Un matin pluvieux dans le port de Marseille. Les trois marins de l'Aldébaran se lèvent, "le moral poissé dans la grisaille". Voilà cinq mois que leur cargo est à quai : leur armateur, non content de sa faillite, a pris la fuite. Le navire et son trio sont condamnés à attendre que la justice s'intéresse à leur avenir. D'ici-là, il faut survivre, entre la mer et la terre, où ils fréquentent d'autres êtres à la dérive, en quête du sens de l'existence. Marseille, la belle, veille sur eux tel "un éblouissement.(...) Une femme qui s'offre à ceux qui arrivent par la mer" et rappelle à leur souvenir "le bonheur, simple, qui descend du ciel vers la mer".
Jean-Claude Izzo, chantre de Marseille, qu'il met en scène comme un personnage dans tous ses romans, notamment dans sa trilogie "noire" (Total Khéops, Chourmo, Solea), est aussi fasciné par le destin des êtres en perdition, par ce moment de bascule qui les précipite dans l'irréparable, les bannit du bonheur. Son dernier roman, Le Soleil des mourants est consacré aux hommes perdus derrière les initiales "SDF"…
—Laure Anciel, Amazon.fr