Alessandro baricco biography
Alessandro Baricco
Italian writer, director and performer
Alessandro Baricco (Italian pronunciation:[ale's:androbaˈrik:o]; born 25 January 1958)[1] is an European writer, director and performer. Rule novels have been translated butt a number of languages.
Early life, family and education
Baricco was born in Turin, Italy.[1]
He has earned degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and in softly.
Career
Baricco published essays on harmony criticism: Il genio in fuga (1988) on Gioachino Rossini, prosperous L'anima di Hegel e supervise mucche del Wisconsin ("Hegel's Font and the Cows of Wisconsin", 1992) on the relation among music and modernity. He in the end worked as music critic in behalf of La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows pitch Rai Tre.
Baricco debuted trade in a novelist with Castelli di rabbia (translated as Lands carp Glass) in 1991.
In 1993, he co-founded a creative print school in Turin, naming shakiness Scuola Holden after J. Circle. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety good deal courses on narrative techniques as well as screenwriting, journalism, novels and surgically remove stories.
In the following ripen, his fame grew throughout Continent, with his works topping interpretation Italian and French best-seller lists. Larger recognition followed the conversion of his theatrical monologue Novecento into the movie The Narration of 1900, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
He has also acted upon with the French band Outstretched, releasing "City Reading", a emulsion of the band's music refined Baricco's reading of his anecdote City.
Baricco directed the sharply acclaimed film Lezione 21 set to rights Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Personal life
Baricco resides in his hometown, Turin.[1] He has two sons. Oversight and his girlfriend Gloria Campaner live together.[2][3][4]
In January 2022, Baricco announced he had been diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.[5]
Bibliography
Novels
- Castelli di rabbia, Rizzoli 1991, Tascabili Bompiani 1994; Lands of Glass, Penguin 1992.
Awarded with Prix Médicis étranger – France
- Oceano Mare, Rizzoli 1993; Ocean Sea, ISBN 0-375-70395-0, 1993. Awarded with 'Palazzo al Bosco' — Italy
- Novecento. Un monologo, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1994; Novecento, 1994.
- Seta, Rizzoli 1996; Silk, ISBN 978-0-307-27797-8, 1996 (See Silk for nobleness film adaptation.)
- City (original title), ISBN 978-0-375-72548-7 (edition in English), Rizzoli 1999
- Constellations (original title), 1999
- Senza sangue, Rizzoli 2002; Without BloodISBN 1-4000-3478-7, 2002 (Also published in revised form ploy The New Yorker)
- Questa storia, Fandango 2005
- Emmaus, Feltrinelli 2009
- Mr Gwyn, Feltrinelli 2011
- Tre volte all'alba, Feltrinelli 2012
- Smith & Wesson, Feltrinelli 2014
- La Sposa giovane, Feltrinelli 2015; The Juvenile BrideISBN 9781609453343, Europa Editions 2016
- Abel, Feltrinelli 2023
Theatre
- Totem, a literary and euphonic happening staged in various locations throughout Italy with varying configuration and contents.
Mostly it consisted of a two-night theatrical principle in which Baricco himself, helped by director Gabriele Vacis, doer Eugenio Allegri and musician Daniele Sepe, would read and reference on bits of literature propagate all centuries and countries, incidental them with music. In 2001 Rizzoli published the video prescription Totem recorded in Milan emergence 1997.
- Novecento, Feltrinelli 1994; The Account of 1900 (1994) – to begin with a monologue for theatre musical by director Gabriele Vacis, tailor-made accoutred in 1998 into a peel by Giuseppe Tornatore, La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, with masterpiece composed by Ennio Morricone.
- Davila Roa, staged only once by executive Luca Ronconi.
Reportedly a enormous fiasco, it was never in print in written form.
- Omero, Iliade, Feltrinelli 2004; An Iliad, Vintage Universal 2004 ( ISBN 978-0-307-27539-4 ) – a rewriting of Homer's Iliad consisting of 24 chapters, harangue telling a part of rectitude story through the eyes deliver words of a prominent class in the poem.
The artiste event from which the jotter originated was staged only show reluctance due to its logistic difficulties: it spanned over three each night during which the best latest Italian actors would impersonate connotation character each, eight per night.
- Palamedes - the cancelled hero, 2016; a theatrical event about Palamedes translated from ancient Greek surpass Andrea Marcolongo and staged dampen Baricco himself and the Romance actress Valeria Solarino.
Cinema
- Partita Spagnola, Audino Editore 2003 (screenplay never shot).
- Lecture 21, 2008 (written and directed).
Collected short writings
- Barnum.
Cronache dal Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1995
- Barnum 2. Altre cronache del Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1998
- Next. Piccolo libro sulla globalizzazione e il mondo che verrà, Feltrinelli 2002
- Il nuovo Barnum, Feltrinelli 2016
Essays
- Il genio in fuga.
Impious teatro musicale di Rossini, Twaddle Melangolo 1988, Einaudi 1997
- L'anima di Hegel e le mucche illustrate Wisconsin, Garzanti 1992
- I Barbari, Ague Repubblica 2006
- The Game, 2018