Alessandro Baricco

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Alessandro Baricco (2010)

Alessandro Baricco [ a.les.ˈsan.dro ba.ˈrik.ko ] (born January 25, 1958 in Turin ) is an Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Alessandro Baricco studied philosophy and musicology and was a student of Gianni Vattimo and graduated in 1983 with a thesis on Theodor W. Adorno . This was followed by publications in various areas, such as Adorno, Walter Benjamin , Gioachino Rossini and New Music . The script for a short film Una vita spericolata (A daredevil life) , written in 1984 , received sponsorship awards. Baricco has worked as a music critic for a long time . He wrote for the daily newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa , among others . His journalistic articles and essays have been published in several edited volumes.

Baricco became popular in his Italian homeland, particularly through his work in television. From 1993 he brought classical operas closer to the audience in the show L'amore è un dardo (Love is an arrow) . From 1994 he moderated with Il circolo Pickwick ( The Pickwickier ) a literary program for the "inexperienced reader". Baricco's other projects also focused on the public dissemination of literature . For the first time in 1997 he conceived a reading festival called Totem together with the theater director Gabriele Vacis , which was published as a combined book and video production. With the band Air , he released an album in 2003 that sought to combine music and reading. Since 1994 Baricco has been running a literature school called Scuola Holden in Turin, where he still mostly lives today.

In 2018 he was appointed to the jury of the section for VR films at the 75th Venice International Film Festival .

Literary work

With his first novel Castelli di rabbia (German title: Land of Glass) , Baricco was celebrated in Italy in 1991 as a literary discovery and a promising young author. The successor Oceano Mare was also largely enthusiastically received in 1993, and both novels were awarded prizes. This was followed by two shorter pieces, the monologue Novecento (Nineteen Hundred) and the novella-like novel Seta (silk) , both of which resulted in film adaptations ( silk and The Legend of the Ocean Pianist ). Seta became a world bestseller and made Baricco known in the German-speaking world . On the other hand, City received poor reviews , although according to Gerhild Fuchs the novel became a cult book among young readers. In 2002 and 2005, two further novels followed with Senza Sangue (Without Blood) and Questa Storia (This Story) .

Works (selection)

Literary prizes

Film adaptations

literature

  • Gerhild Fuchs: Alessandro Baricco's Variations on Postmodernism . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2513-X .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Biography mainly based on Gerhild Fuchs: Alessandro Bariccos Variationen der Postmoderne , pp. 19–20.
  2. ↑ a b Gerhild Fuchs: Alessandro Baricco's Variations of Postmodernism , pp. 13, 19.
  3. ↑ Short biography on Alessandro Baricco for the international literature festival berlin .
personal data
SURNAME Baricco, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin