Senza sangue (novella)
Senza sangue (German: without blood ) is a novella by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco . It was published in 2002 by the Rizzoli publishing house in Milan.
action
The novel consists of two parts, entitled "One" and "Two". He focuses on the figure of Nina, the daughter of the farm owner Mato Rujo.
The first part takes place in an old remote farm. As a child, Nina witnessed the murder of her father and brother by three men. During the massacre, she hides under a trap door on her father's instructions. Tito, one of the murderers, opens the door and discovers it - but he closes the trapdoor again and Nina survives.
In the second part, Nina, now an older woman, meets Tito again. She invites him to a café where they review their pasts until they come to the time of the crime that has deeply shaped their lives. Finally, Nina invites the astonished Tito to a night of love in a hotel. He realizes that he has assumed the same hunched-over posture that saved Nina from death back then.
Aftermath
The opera Senza sangue by Péter Eötvös , which premiered on May 1, 2015 in the Cologne Philharmonic , is based on the second part of the novella.
Text output
- Alessandro Baricco: Senza sangue. RCS Libri SpA, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-17-00178-3 .
- Alessandro Baricco, Anja Nattefort (translator): Without blood. Carl Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-446-20347-8