Monday, June 1, 2020

Ocean of Senses - Short Story Fiction by Maria Teresa De Donato - Review by Prof. Mila Nardelli


Ocean of Senses

Short Story Fiction by Maria Teresa De Donato

Review by Prof. Mila Nardelli




The literary work "Ocean of Senses" by author Maria Teresa De Donato is a love story with a historical background: a journey through the memories of Claudia, the protagonist, starting from her childhood and adolescence lived in Libya at the time when the country was colonized by the Italians, continuing with her marriage, the birth of her son and the failures and twists that follow one another, until her encounter with a man who will completely change her life.
A treasure trove of Ethical values, Maria Teresa's short story, the first of all being the family, in which Claudia grew up protected, but at the same time free, relying on them always and above all in difficult moments. No less important, are the value of family roots and the consequent respect for the culture and traditions of the country of origin of her Italian parents, Sicily, which is grafted with the value and respect for the culture and traditions of that wonderful land, Libya, from the sunburnt Mediterranean beaches and the desert irrigated by suggestive oases, where Claudia was born and raised lighthearted.
The author's writing is flowing, pleasant and engaging, with a descriptive ability that paints images, places, landscapes and colors, which come to life in the fiery yellow-orange sand of the desert and in the rosy shades of the sunsets, becoming poetry in prose.                                                                  
An attentive observer of the slightest nuances of the human soul, Maria Teresa, skillfully combines words to describe emotions and feelings, but also to transmit visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile sensory experiences, an ocean of senses where the imagination of the reader gently sinks in.
An engaging, intriguing short story, which keeps the interest and attention of the reader high, who, page after page, is completely enraptured by an incessant curiosity. Accurate and profound is the analysis that the author makes of Love, the leading theme, love with its risks, with its sufferings, anxieties, loneliness, especially if unrequited and the love that can give joy, psychic and physical pleasure, capable of understanding, intuiting, warming up and pampering, when it is a shared feeling.

"Ocean of senses" is a hymn to Life with its falls and rises, but still to be loved and lived, even when it seems that everything is over.
A short story with numerous interesting aspects and details, intended for a large audience, in which Maria Teresa's writing becomes substance for emotions and feelings that arouse not only intellectual pleasure, but above all soul motions.
                                                             
                                                                                                     Mila Nardelli