Review to "Ocean of senses"
by
Rosa Genovese
By means
of this book, Maria Teresa gives us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in an
ocean of passion and eroticism. Eros triumphs as a boost to life and the union
of free bodies to act in pure pleasure. Too often Western civilization has
harnessed the body within strict behavioral rules and rigid theories to
compress and contain it as much as possible. In this novel the author tells us
that it is possible that the miracle of feeling alive in the physical exchange
with the other sex in the name of Eros will occur and happen when we least
expect it to make us fully experience the joy, trust, the maximum
expressiveness and full freedom of being in our body.
Right from the start the author manages to get us into
the story as if we were experiencing it first hand and we were there with the
characters to personally live situations, environments and emotions. The reading
intrigues and flows quickly. Once the book is started, you can only stop at the
last line of the very last page. "Ocean
of senses" is not only a novel of love and passion but it is also an
indication to succeed, despite the painful experiences that sometimes one might
face, in living life by asking ourselves the fundamental questions about our human
existence. An ongoing questioning on love, sex, destiny, conscious or
unconscious choices that are fulfilled in life and that the author through her
protagonist, Claudia, confronts us with.
This novel in its deep essence revolves around the phrase
of Oscar Wilde that Maria Teresa quoted: "For
most of us the real life is the one we do not live"; but at the same
time it is an exhortation to notice and fully experience the miracle of
existence in its physical, psychic and spiritual expression as distinct aspects
of a single indivisible whole.
Love and eroticism are the very essence of it in their most
human and sublime aspects. We just need to
read it!
Rosa Genovese (Actress, playwright, psychologist)
