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Alessandro Baricco

Born

in Turin, Italy

January 25, 1958

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Italo Calvino, J.D. Salinger, Gabriel García Márquez, Umberto Eco, Nik ...more

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Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.

He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.

Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 213,242 ratings · 16,510 reviews · 92 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silk 3.85 avg rating — 63,645 ratings — published 1996 — 250 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novecento. Un monologo 4.18 avg rating — 42,499 ratings — published 1994 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen 4.09 avg rating — 26,427 ratings — published 1993 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Gwyn 4.09 avg rating — 10,093 ratings — published 2011 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castelli di rabbia 3.76 avg rating — 9,552 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Omero, Iliade 3.69 avg rating — 9,034 ratings — published 2004 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tre volte all'alba 3.72 avg rating — 8,400 ratings — published 2012 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Without Blood 3.56 avg rating — 6,679 ratings — published 2002 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City 3.73 avg rating — 4,936 ratings — published 1999 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emmaus 3.33 avg rating — 4,858 ratings — published 2009 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Alessandro Baricco (?)

“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

tags: books

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“إنه ألمٌ غـريب , أن تموت من الحنين لشـيء.. لم تعشـه أبداً”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

tags: ح-رير

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“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

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July Short Story/Novella Poll

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, 70 pages, 1862

36 votes, 21.4%

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, 55 pages, 1997

33 votes, 19.6%

The Misanthrope by Molière, 64+ pages, 1666

27 votes, 16.1%

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, 32pages, 1973

25 votes, 14.9%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 48 pages, 1909

20 votes, 11.9%

The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, 128 pages, 1950

15 votes, 8.9%

Silk by Alessandro Baricco, 91 pages, 1996

12 votes, 7.1%

168 total votes

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