The difficulty in finding a reasonable image to accompany this review is illuminating. Many of the pictures are ridiculously romantic and technicoloured. Massive, silver, blue, purple and gold monsters leap impossibly high out of the sea and an impossibly old man looks on awed by the fish's magnificence.
I hadn't read the novel since my teenage years and my adolescent memory of the story was one of a deeply rich relationship between man and fish. I was chary of re-reading in case I found it to be the romantic hogwash and fakery that it is sometimes accused of being.
My early opinion survived the experience. Whilst not being as profound as I once thought it was I still enjoyed it very much and love its treatment of scale and its epic quality.
I hadn't read the novel since my teenage years and my adolescent memory of the story was one of a deeply rich relationship between man and fish. I was chary of re-reading in case I found it to be the romantic hogwash and fakery that it is sometimes accused of being.
My early opinion survived the experience. Whilst not being as profound as I once thought it was I still enjoyed it very much and love its treatment of scale and its epic quality.
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