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Il
cerchio celtico
Bjorn
Larsson
Edizioni
Iperborea pp. 409
Only
adventure can nourish a bored spirit and restore a taste for life. Only
the open sea and a boat can fill the heart and mind of a person born
to be a sailor.
These
are the assumptions behind the novel of the famous Swedish author, Larsson,
a regular sailor in his boat “Rustica”. As for many sailors, for Larsson
as well, his boat is more than a thing, it is worthy of affection and
consideration because it has a personality of its own that rides the
waves resolute and determined.
On
the “Rustica”, a breathtaking plot begins, worthy of a real thriller,
set in the nineties between Denmark and Scotland. The intrigues of a
secret organisation that dreams of freeing the Celtic nation launch
the protagonist into an adventure where challenges, passions and encounters
follow the quick rhythms of the sea.
I
luoghi della storia
Sergio
Romano Rizzoli
Ed.Rizzoli
-pp. 525
Recent history has been so packed with ideological superstructures as
to appear obvious and even rather tedious. A pity really because all
we need do is not suffocate the spirit over school books alone, but
grasp the sense of an event from several sources and give intelligence
free rein. History starts in the narrator’s (protagonist’s) present
and that is why, as Croce said, history is always contemporary.
It
inevitably reflects the thoughts, interests and goals that predominate
in the writer’s period. Sergio Romanoha’s book has exactly this principle
as its guideline: the 20th century, full of events and ideological and
political upheavals, can and must be observed in the light of what is
happening today, detached from all the rhetoric interpretation of who
has won and who has lost, with clarity, the ability to analyse, but
above all with conciseness.
His
clean, witty, clear and concise style makes for pleasant reading, even
for those that do not agree with what he says, because everyone feels
the need for a brilliant and cultured interlocutor with whom to contend,
even if only in reading, sat in an armchair in front of the fire. (traduzione
Interpres sas-GiusSano)
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