Alessandro Baricco

At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento – 1900. The child is destined to a strange fate. Novecento will never leave the ship as long as he lives, yet he becomes the greatest jazz musician the world would never know. He only knows his music, which has a magical effect on everyone who hears. For six years before World War II, Tim Tooney played trumpet with him and Novecento gave him his story...Adapted for film in The Legend of 1900, this stage adaptation presented as a monologue, is a beautiful piece of theatre.

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.

In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they don't even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But the moment he does, Joncour is enslaved.Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession.

Schon mit seinen ersten Romanen hatte der 1958 geborene Alessandro Baricco große Erfolge, mit "Seta" (dt. "Seide") wurde er weltberühmt. Die Geschichte von der Leidenschaft des Seidenhändlers Herv? Joncour zu einer rätselhaften Schönheit in Japan erzählt Baricco in einer schwebenden, eleganten, dabei einfachen Prosa ("leicht wie ein Seidentuch", Elke Heidenreich), die den kurzen Roman für Italienischlerner schon mit guten Grundkenntnissen zugänglich macht - eine Parabel vom Glück und seiner Unerreichbarkeit. - Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old.Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their reunion brings about a profound reappraisal of their lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier.Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives readers in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands across Europe.

"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.

Alessandro Baricco (s. 1958) on tänapäeva Itaalia üks hinnatum kirjanik ja dramaturg, kelle raamatuid on ka eesti keelde tõlgitud. Oppinud filosoofiat ja muusikateadust, tegutses ta esmalt tunnustatud muusikakriitikuna. Baricco debüütromaan "Castelli di rabbia" (1991) pälvis Itaalias kohe suure tähelepanu ning sellele järgnesid rahvusvahelised menukid "Oceano mare" (1993; e.k. "Ookean meri", 2005) ja "Seta" (1996; e.k. "Siid", 2002).Baricco esimene muusikakriitiline kogumik "Il genio in fuga" ("Põgenev geenius", 1988) keskendub Gioachino Rossini muusikateatrile. Käesolev raamat "Hegeli vaim ja Wisconsini lehmad" (1992) on tõlgitud paljudesse keeltesse ning käsitleb muusika ja modernsuse suhet aspektidest, mis on jätkuvalt aktuaalsed. Ehkki Baricco vaimukad arutlused on kirja pandud üle kolmekümne aasta tagasi, on raamatus tõstatatud küsimused nõnda teravad, et mõni eelistaks neist tänapäevalgi mööda hiilida.

Romany Alessandro Barikko napominajut odnovremenno i pritchi, i trillery, i poemy v proze, Roman "Shelk" - eto istorija ljubvi dvukh ljudej, prinadlezhaschikh raznym miram - vostoku i zapadu - raznym kulturam, no etikh ljudej svjazyvaet ta neulovimaja nit, kogda slova izlishni i dostatochno lish vzgljada... V knigu vkhodit takzhe roman "More-okean", za kotoryj Barikko poluchil premii "Viaredzho" i "Palatstso al Bosko".

Alessandro Barikko - odin iz jarchajshikh sovremennykh pisatelej, simvol italjanskoj literatury. Ego bestseller "Shelk" vsemirno izvesten i pereveden na desjatki jazykov. Eto roman o ljubvi, trogatelnoj i neverojatno krasivoj. Istorija otnoshenij molodogo frantsuza, ego zheny i gejshi-evropejki ocharovyvaet chitatelja. Izjaschnyj erotizm, schemjaschaja toska i sladkaja nezhnost, dalnie puteshestvija, poiski nastojaschego schastja, kotoroe mertsaet vdaleke i manit za soboj (a na samom dele ono sovsem rjadom, tolko geroj ne vidit ego v pogone za mechtoj!), - vse eto est v romane "Shelk", nezhnoj i volnujuschej knige o ljubvi.

The Game analyzes our current cultural and social moment by examining just how it is that we got here. Year by year, innovation by innovation, the book recontextualizes our relationship with technology. Alessandro Baricco explores not only how massive technological leaps have changed our world, but how they modified human behavior, economics, and our relationship with our possessions and contemporaries. He focuses on how Space Invaders dramatically shifted how we view our interaction with digital and social space, how the dot-com bubble birthed the online venture capitalist, and how the advent of the algorithm permanently delegitimized the cultural and academic elite in a way we'll grapple with for decades to come. Razor sharp and technically astute, this book-length essay also reverberates with humanity.