Word: gibraltar
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...centuries and more, the legend of the lost Atlantis has had a powerful hold on the human imagination. In his dialogues, Plato described Atlantis as an island "confederation of marvelous power" located near the Straits of Gibraltar, somewhere in the Atlantic. In Timaeus, he declared that one day the whole population "sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." Plato dated the disaster as 9,000 years before the time of Solon, the Athenian statesman who lived in the 7th century B. C. But modern oceanographers can find...
...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover...
These qualities are nowhere more apparent than in The Sailor from Gibraltar, an expansive, leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...
...young Parisian, bored with his job and his mistress, ships aboard a yacht owned by a rich and beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without...
Since the publication of The Sailor from Gibraltar, Author Duras has succeeded Simone de Beauvoir as Paris' first lady of letters, though her novels have become more schematic and cinematic. As Sailor from Gibraltar shows, her real forte is a less complex, but rarer, understanding of people and a talent for simple storytelling...