The loud success of Alessandro Baricco, one of the brightest contemporary writers, was presented in the present edition of the novel “Sea-ocean”, awarded the prizes Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco . In the Almayer Tavern on the oceanfront, a funny professor makes up the Encyclopedia of Limits (where does the sea end?.. The artist, once a successful secular portraitist, "paints the sea by the sea", dipping a brush in the sea water; one gentle stranger came here to be cured of love, and the other - to be cured of love... They live as if they have eternity ahead of them, and there is peace in the air, detachment, endless fatigue of the soul.