"All the stormy passions of humanity ... it's been like reflections in a mirror, without a trace of the mysterious face of the Sea Joseph Conrad
few weeks ago I wrote of the pleasures of swimming, defined as exercise and spiritual. Exercise with passion that I continue to practice in the warm waters of the house, the Adriatic and september.
the swimmer "this hero" is dedicated to the book by Charles Sprawson "The Shadow of the Black Masseur" , released in England in 1992 and translated a few years later in Italy to Adelphi. A text that despite an excess of quotations and a too wide-ranging international, remains a pleasant lettura, utile a comporre un quadro del nuoto dalla supremazia inglese dell'Ottocento fino agli anni Trenta del Novecento, definito dall'autore il decennio giapponese. Non mancano i riferimenti alla classicità greca e romana, sia sul versante mitologico che storico. Ampio risalto è dato poi agli scrittori nuotatori, dalle note vicende acquatiche romantiche di Byron e Shelley a quelle meno note, ma forse ancor più affascinanti, del regista Akira Kurosawa e Yukio Mishima. “Se Shelley fu il più commovente dei nuotatori, Byron fu universalmente considerato il più grande dei suoi tempi”, Byron che a proposito della sua traversata dell'Ellesponto diceva: “Di quest'impresa vado fiero più che di qualsiasi altra opera, both political and poetic rhetoric. " After a century, on the other side of the Earth, Kurosawa, and Mishima from their experience, an extraordinary importance attributed to swimming, transposing their love in this memorable film and books. In its pages Sprawson, intersecting personal experience to the size of non-fiction, has sought to investigate "The peculiar psychology of the swimmer, his" feel the water '. "
More generally believe that the sea is a great gym to train the "feel" through the daily exercise of swimming in the waters of our cities.
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