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El Amante Del Mar (1920)

by Benoîte Groult(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Fantástica obra de sentimientos a flor de piel y escrita con verdadera pasión. Es interesante si quieres entender los sentimientos de una mujer profundamente enamorada y frenada por el tiempo y la distancia. Es recomedable.Romántica. Parece fuera de lugar, pero os aseguro que, tras leerla, hay conceptos de la vida que intento no plantearme muy a menudo. Algo tan inmoral como el engaño, se vuelve una de las historias más románticas que pueden leerse, y sin reproches. Muy personal, la escritora a desvelado sentimientos de una mujer cuya vida pertenece a otra persona para quien los estratos sociales no la dejan acercarse. Es la segunda vez que la he leído... y os aseguro que no la última.
review 2: This is a wonderful love story between two people who spen... moret their childhood summers in the same village, but who grew up to live in entirely different worlds. George is a cultured (and rather snobbish) intellectual living mostly in Paris, Gavin is a Breton fisherman. Their relationship lasts through the decades, with them finding excuses to go meet up in the Seychelles, Montreal, Florida, Dakar to spend precious time together. The book is wonderfully written and is very honest about sex, never deteriorating into either pornography or coyness (though sometimes it does get a bit silly, but that's true to life!). The characters are alive and endearing, though George is sometimes rather too caustic in her snobbish attitudes to American culture or to Gavin's lack of refinement (though again that's probably very true to life). One of the things I like is that although Gavin seems like the kind of man I would never be attracted to, the writing makes me entirely see him from George's point of view and I can understand what could seem her rather unlikely attraction and loyalty to him. Not just a love story, its also full of social commentary and lots of information about deep sea fishing! I had never heard of Benoite Groult before I read this book, but I'll certainly look out for her other novels now. less

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