“The eye of Leviathan” by Paolo Lodigiani: a story of sea and crossed destinies

The sea is life, the sea is incessant, perennial movement. The sea is Forceprimitive and terrible, vital and regenerating energy; sense And leakpurpose and abandonment, start And end. At sea and by sea Giulio intends to travel the last stretch of his life: a fake funeral, the escape from family and loved ones after an apparently happy and fulfilled existence and Zoe, the faithful sailboat, ready for a new, final route towards the unknown, to get lost or, perhaps, find yourself definitively…

His story is told in The eye of Leviathannovel by Paolo Lodigiani protagonist to free literary tournament IoScrittore (powered by GeMS Group) now available in ebookswhich takes you through stories of the sea, never linear and made up of inconstant and capricious winds.

The long one voyage longed for, he ends up stranded in a quiet village in the south of France for four years. A long abandonment, near a sunny and silent pier, which seems to imprison Giulio in a Magic spell Homeric; but a message from the little one Grandchild adored reaches him and snatches him from his torpid limbo.

He has to go back to sea, he has to returndespite the fact that one of the terrible storms for which the is famous is looming on the horizon Gulf of Lion. On those same waters, on the crest of the same waves, other destinies are being fulfilled: a yacht, the Beau Geste, sails uncertainly like the lives of the eight people on board, tossed by the wind as well as by life between deceptions and passions. Among them there is Camila, who was born on the sea and who seems to know every secret of the sea; when the two boats cross their paths, they also cross each other the destinies of Giulio and Camila.

As in all storms, ancient ones will resurface memories and distant episodes, pains never dormant they will rise to the surface, but new perspectives will also open like the clouds at the arrival of the sun. And there will remain a new legend of salt water, another story of sailors in a tavern port…

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Paolo Lodigianiborn in Milan in 1948, worked for over twenty years as manager of a large civil construction company before devoting himself professionally to his passion for sea and for the sail, founding a nautical design company. He is the author of manuals on the design and construction of boats, nautical guides and numerous articles on the historical aspects of navigation and on the culture of the sea. He initiated and still follows cooperation initiatives in the nautical sector in African and Latin American countries.

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