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the Complete Review
the complete review - fiction



The Lost Sailors

by
Jean-Claude Izzo


[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]


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Title: The Lost Sailors
Author: Jean-Claude Izzo
Genre: Novel
Written: 1997 (Eng. 2007)
Length: 262 pages
Original in: French
Availability: The Lost Sailors - US
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Les marins perdus - Canada
The Lost Sailors - India
Les marins perdus - France
Aldebaran - Deutschland
Marinai perduti - Italia
Los marineros perdidos - España
  • French title: Les marins perdus
  • Translated by Howard Curtis
  • Les marins perdus was made into a film in 2003, directed by Claire Devers, and starring Bernard Giraudeau, Marie Trintignant, and Audrey Tautou

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:

Just not in the mood


Chances that we will review it:

Fairly good

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Review Summaries
Source Rating Date Reviewer
Boston Globe . 2/12/2007 Katherine A. Powers
TLS . 10/10/1997 Elizabeth Beyer


  From the Reviews:
  • "What ensues is a tale of the three men's lives and loves, the former shaped and the latter doomed by maritime absence. In fact, Izzo's novel is something of a palimpsest. The travels of the Romans, and of the Greeks before them, have left their traces over which the lives of his characters are now etched. Though the stories unfold in today's world and against a backdrop of one of the world's great port cities -- now in decline and festering with crime and racial tension -- they nonetheless resonate with the Mediterranean's Homeric narrative." - Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

  • "Izzo uses chronologies, digressions, associations of ideas and wanderings of spirit to give a rhythm to the narrative while tracing the trajectory of each character. Their present adventures and past loves, harvested in all the harbours of the world, mix with the cosmopolitan history of Marseilles under the bright violent Mediterranean light." - Elizabeth Beyer, Times Literary Supplement

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.

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About the Author:

       Jean-Claude Izzo was a popular French author. He was born in 1945 and died in 2000.

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