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
