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Именно за роман "Море" Джон Бэнвилл, самый знаменитый из ныне живущих писателей Ирландии, был удостоен Букеровской премии. Прозу Бэнвилла недаром сравнивают с творчеством Владимира Набокова, он столь же виртуозно владеет пером, так же богат его язык, он так же изобретателен и точен в передаче деталей. "Море" - роман-исповедь, написанный от первого лица. Тяжело пережив смерть жены, герой романа приезжает в селение на берегу моря, где в детстве жил с родителями, и мысленно погружается в прошлое, вспоминая до мельчайших подробностей ощущения ребенка, в котором просыпается чувственность, первую влюбленность, первую трагедию. "Что реальней,…

The Sea (film tie-in)

When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.

The author of The Untouchable (contemporary fiction gets no better than this--Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child--a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The…

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel — among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

The author of The Untouchable ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"—Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The…

Роман повествует о том, как потеряв любимую жену, которая скончалась от рака, искусствовед средних лет возвращается в родной ирландский городок на берег моря, где предается воспоминаниям о прошлом.

The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the twins—Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and expressionless—in whose mysterious connection Max became profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the "barely…

Именно за роман «Море» Джон Бэнвилл, самый знаменитый из ныне живущих писателей Ирландии, был удостоен Букеровской премии. Прозу Бэнвилла недаром сравнивают с творчеством Владимира Набокова, он столь же виртуозно владеет пером, так же богат его язык, он так же изобретателен и точен в передаче деталей. «Море» — роман-исповедь, написанный от первого лица. Тяжело пережив смерть жены, герой романа приезжает в селение на берегу моря, где в детстве жил с родителями, и мысленно погружается в прошлое, вспоминая до мельчайших подробностей ощущения ребенка, в котором просыпается чувственность, первую влюбленность, первую трагедию. «Что…