Summary
Claudio Magris: Second Sea
A short novel by Claudio Magris, a story about the historical layers of the Mediterranean, about the people, cultures and traditions that arose and persist on its shores.
In the novel Second Sea, readers are constantly captivated by an interesting story and one of the most brilliant erudition in modern European literature, the elegance of storytelling and the depth of insight, unexpected encounters and the charms of the sea that it reveals perhaps the best modern connoisseur of the Mediterranean.
Living in the Mediterranean and with it and its new and old historical and experiential traces, Magris' heroes yearn for some other sea of their own life.
This longing is their great utopia that lasts parallel to the peaceful or dramatic circumstances in the Mediterranean, among which in this novel the Second World War and the events in the years immediately following it have a special place next.
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