Alessandro Baricco
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born
January 25, 1958
place of birth
Turin, Italy
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages, and include Lands of Glass, Silk, Ocean Sea, City, and Without Blood. His theatrical monologue, Novecento, was adapted into film, titled The Legend of 1900.
Author photo by Piero Tauro.
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Silk by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.79 — 1,192 ratings — published 1996 46 editions |
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Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen avg rating 4.08 — 358 ratings — published 1993 26 editions |
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Novecento, Un Monologo by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 4.05 — 190 ratings — published 1994 18 editions |
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Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.59 — 140 ratings — published 2002 22 editions |
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An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.59 — 133 ratings — published 2005 11 editions |
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City by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.66 — 130 ratings — published 1999 21 editions |
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Castelli di rabbia by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.62 — 42 ratings — published 1991 13 editions |
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Questa storia by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.55 — 40 ratings — published 2005 7 editions |
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NEXT: Sobre la globalización y el siglo que viene by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Baricco, coffret 4 volumes : Soie - City - Novecento : Pianiste - Océan mer by Alessandro Baricco avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2002 |
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"This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist."
— Alessandro Baricco (Ocean Sea)
— Alessandro Baricco (Ocean Sea)
"He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a mahogany box, lifts the lid, lets the letter fall inside, open and unaddressed. In the box are hundreds of identical envelopes, open and unaddressed. He thinks that somewhere in the world he will meet a woman who has always been his woman. Every now and again he regrets that destiny has been so stubbornly determined to make him wait with such indelicate tenacity, but with time he has learned to consider the matter with great serenity. Almost every day, for years now, he has taken pen in hand to write to her. He has no names or addresses to put on the envelopes: but he has a life to recount. And to whom, if not to her? He thinks that when they meet it will be wonderful to place the mahogany box full of letters on her lap and say to her, 'I was waiting for you.'
"She will open the box and slowly, when she so desires, read the letters one by one. As she works her way back up the interminable thread of blue ink she will gather up the years-- the days, the moments-- that that man, before he ever met her, had already given to her. Or perhaps more simply, she will overturn the box and astonished at that comical snowstorm of letters, she will smile, saying to that man, 'You are mad.' And she will love him forever.
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— Alessandro Baricco
"She will open the box and slowly, when she so desires, read the letters one by one. As she works her way back up the interminable thread of blue ink she will gather up the years-- the days, the moments-- that that man, before he ever met her, had already given to her. Or perhaps more simply, she will overturn the box and astonished at that comical snowstorm of letters, she will smile, saying to that man, 'You are mad.' And she will love him forever.
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— Alessandro Baricco
"Non sarebbe poi niente se solo non si avesse di fonte l'infinito."
— Alessandro Baricco (Castelli di rabbia)
— Alessandro Baricco (Castelli di rabbia)
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