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	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Alessandro Baricco
		Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958.
		With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller.
		In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour is compelled to travel to Japan, where, in the court of an enigmatic nobleman, he meets a woman.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=1388 (279 words)

	War's horror, told in sly T-shirt poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Baricco is one of the few novelists whose prose is so, well, wearable: unhurried, slyly philosophical and always accessible.
		Baricco keeps us knee-deep in the ambiguity and strange pathos of this scene, while continually reminding us how very normal the pair must seem: an elderly man and woman sitting down for coffee.
		Though Baricco has a tendency to over-poeticize his prose (there are a few too many profound sentence fragments and one-sentence paragraphs), he generally hits the mark: "We have turned over the earth so violently that we have reawakened the savagery of children," Tito ultimately thinks about his idealistic revolution.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/20/RVGJ273VKD1.DTL&type=printable (908 words)

	Why size doesn’t matter … especially in a novel - [Sunday Herald]
		In Nina, whom we first encounter as a four-year-old ordered to hide under the floorboards of a farm house as an old vendetta claims the lives of her father and brother, there is a portrait of trauma and redemption as delicate as gossamer.
		Baricco’s prose is as reticent as the character.
		Baricco, it seems, is saying something about the corrosive effects of war on society and on those who fight, how some become trapped in the cycle of killing, how their war never ends.
	www.sundayherald.com /41854 (787 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		The effect of this powerful book lies in a single conversation wherein a woman, who was once an orphaned girl, and a man, who was once the boy who orphaned her, try to piece together nearly half a century of time, which neither of them can find the words for.
		Baricco’s characters are unable to resign themselves to the awkwardness and mendacity of ordinary life, as the event they both perpetrated has left a film on them, an invisible gauze that is itself both the question and the answer: How does one scrape the film away so that he or she might breathe?
		Baricco is a writer of great intuition, able to transform the simplest language, which perhaps at first reading is plain, into a kind of poetry of experience.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/04_2/baricco.html (210 words)

	Books \| Urban sprawl
		Alessandro Baricco's international bestseller, Silk, was fine in every sense of the word: a beguiling 19th-century fable of a French silkworm trader and a Japanese concubine, whose wordless passion was so elliptically evoked that the novella barely seemed to exist.
		Interwoven with this is the surprisingly gripping spaghetti western that Shatzy periodically dictates into her tape recorder, an oblique boxing commentary, and various samples of the intellectual efforts of Gould's university professors.
		Unfortunately, as Baricco comments, Gould is a minor, otherwise "a single evening at Merry's Pool Hall could have furnished him with useful hints on the inevitable incursion of chance into any geometric figure".
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4290612-99930,00.html (590 words)

	Italica - Baricco Alessandro: Omero, Iliade
		This is the key to unlocking Baricco's work: discovering, in the Iliad, which is a war poem, a population in search of peace as transpires from the Greek assemblies during which the princes discuss strategies, putting off battle as they talk.
		And it is precisely the female voice, according to Baricco, that ever so faintly embodies the possibility of an alternative society, free from the duty of war.
		Baricco's adaptation of the Italian text brings Homer's immortal lines closer to the modern reader, thanks to the successful expedient of subjective narration which detracts nothing from the original, but allows greater empathy and strong emotional involvement.
	www.italica.rai.it /index.php?categoria=literature&scheda=baricco_iliade&lingua=eng (331 words)

	BBC - collective - Alessandro Baricco- City
		Alessandro Barrico's fourth novel City, grows out of this grand tradition of magic realism but in many respects transcends it.
		If you were looking for the DNA thread that drives it and links it to the past you'd look for a helical mixture of Kundera and Calvino, entwined with Vonnegut and Murakami; but Baricco throws in several mutations to the mix.
		So you have a sense where there is the overarching presence of Baricco and then a layer of multiplicitous narratives, a babble of voices, all laying claims to be heard.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1132354 (611 words)

	Bookworm's Lair - Alessandro Baricco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Baricco's style makes one think of a dream in which parts don't seem to fit together, passages are repeated without sense, pauses come up and the impossible gets possible.
		In Ocean Sea, critically acclaimed author Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady - psychological, existential, erotic - and the sea as a means of deliverance.
		Alessandro Baricco is nothing else than a poet who writes the most wonderful poetic stories I have read so far.
	www.bookwormslair.de /baricc_e.htm (862 words)

	OceanoMare ___ Alessandro Baricco :: Ocean Sea Review
		Alessandro Baricco's newly translated 1993 novel, "Ocean Sea," takes place in a faraway, long-ago land that has the vagueness of a fairy-tale kingdom but the sharpness of a dream.
		The story, a kind of tragic whimsy, draws a disparate group of eccentrics -- a beautiful young noblewoman, a priest, an adulteress, a painter, a professor and so forth -- together at a mysterious seaside inn that seems to be staffed solely by five enchanted children.
		Baricco's style is more ornate here than in the only other work that he has published in this country, the exquisite novella "Silk," which is told in a restrained, straightforward manner.
	www.oceanomare.com /opere/oceanomare/ocean_sea.htm (577 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| A young girl rescued from a spaghetti western (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Known to many as the author of a single short work, the bestselling novella translated from the Italian as Silk (1996), Alessandro Baricco is a prolific and varied writer.
		Baricco is less a realist interested in recreating places and times than a fabulist interested in playing with our preconceptions of those times and places.
		Although a footnote tells us that these were chosen purely because of their musical qualities, Baricco is also clearly evoking cinematic associations of Spain and South America with their stories of war and revenge.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/09/bobarr09.xml (593 words)

	OceanoMare ___ Alessandro Baricco :: The New Yorker
		OceanoMare ___ Alessandro Baricco :: The New Yorker
		Alessandro Baricco, whose first story for The New Yorker, "Without Blood," appears in this week's Winter Fiction Issue, is the author of the novels "Ocean Sea," "Silk," and "City." Here Baricco discusses his writing with The New Yorker.
		ALESSANDRO BARICCO: For a long time, I'd had this image in mind: a child hiding in a hole, curled up, with something outside following him, looking for him.
	www.oceanomare.com /opere/senzasangue/ss_newyorker.htm (903 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
		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.
		Alessandro Baricco has won numerous literary awards in Italy and France.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375703959 (268 words)

	Alessandro Baricco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alessandro Baricco (born January 25, 1958) is a popular Italian novelist, both in Italy and abroad.
		His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages.
		He has also worked with the french band Air; Their only release together is City Reading, a mix of the french duo's music with Baricco's reading of his own work City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alessandro_Baricco (135 words)

	Air & Alessandro Baricco
		44-year old Alessandro Baricco is Italy’s most famous contemporary writer, known for his unusual characterizations and lyrical, poetic style.
		Baricco happened to see Air in concert in Rome during the 10,000 Hz.
		The English edition of Baricco's novel "City" will be available in paperback through Knopf in June.
	www.astralwerks.com /air/city_reading/about.html (341 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Froth, with much blood
		Alessandro Baricco, a 46-year-old Italian novelist and former music critic, is a purveyor of sub-erotic escapism.
		In the late 1970s Baricco had been part of a toweringly pretentious literary circle in Turin which called for a new fiction of "pure and undiluted fantasy".
		One cannot imagine: this is Baricco's idea of literature, all pinchbeck filigree and frou-frou.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/09/bobar209.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/05/09/bomain.html (338 words)

	ISGM Contemporary: 2001 Artists-in-Residence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Author Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958 and still lives there today.
		Baricco has also written essays in the field of musicology and several theatrical works.
		Baricco is currently working on a screen adaptation of his novel Silk and on a theatrical adaptation of his latest book, City (Knopf, June 2002) While in residency at the Gardner, Baricco spent time writing and held a reading from City for visitors and staff in Italian and English.
	www.gardnermuseum.org /contemp/2001_art.asp (595 words)

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	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
		In following these developments, the reader has to work hard to keep up with Baricco's train of thought, but thankfully the prose structure is lucid enough to make the text easy on the eye.
		Baricco's appreciation of this image is strikingly reminiscent of the same in Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi classic Solaris.
		But the choicest prose is revealed in the story of the shipwreck in which a group of passengers and crew descend into murder and cannibalism.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/oceansea.html (308 words)

	Bulletin - Without Blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conveying the horror of this story through multiple narrators in just 36 pages is part of Alessandro Baricco’s achievement.
		Baricco, an award-winning author with an international bestseller,
		His mastery of fiction’s most exacting form confirms Baricco is more than a one-hit author.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/All/FFC1874556049352CA256E8500012D49 (201 words)

	Amazon.ca: Silk: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Baricco, the author of two prize-winning novels, spins an enchanting novella as delicate as the silk that fills the story.
		The first thing that struck me about Alessandro Baricco's novella "Silk" was its structure - the form is 100% pure - no words are unnecessary or superfluous.
		The story, too, is simple: a silkworm farmer of modest means travels "to the end of the world" to garner silkworm eggs for the failing silk industry in his small town, and meets a young woman that he cannot get out of his mind.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703829 (601 words)

	Nuova pagina 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		City Reading Project was born from the desire to free the sound and to trasform it all into rhythm and movement, gestures and light.
		Alessandro Baricco's "musical reading" will be lead and accompanied by the music of Giovanni Sollima and the group Air.
		Sollima is the kind of refined composer and cellist from Palermo who has created a style which brings together classical music, rock, jazz and Mediterranean sounds.
	www.romeguide.it /teatri/romaeuropa/english/barico.htm (317 words)

	Baricco Alessandro: Senza Sangue
		Nevertheless, the precepts of the work with a message impose an irritating didactic bent, delivering everything in that way, and also burdened by an oratory laisse: the result is modest, although well concealed by the adroit direction of the publishing machine.
		Like Susanna Tamaro, for Baricco, who seems more and more a lay and calmed down version of her, the release is the event.
		And if the critics express reservations about the book, the writer will perhaps be crying all the way to the bank: it was Alfred Hitchcock who said it, and the comparison stops here.
	www.italica.rai.it /eng/principal/topics/literature/baricco.htm (550 words)

	'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Alessandro Baricco is an Italian novelist, playwright and essayist, whose international career was founded on his slim bestseller, ‘Silk’.
		Baricco could have taken the easy way out and simply written a revenge tale, but that is not what this novel is about.
		By cutting the action, dialogue and prose down to the bare minimum, Baricco offers no distractions, neither in description, nor symbolism, nor in the characters’ surroundings.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/withoutblood.html (815 words)

	SILK Cover Photo by Paul Donker Duyvis Silk by Alessandro Baricco Dreams, video, animation, sad, movie, film, war, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		SILK Cover Photo by Paul Donker Duyvis Silk by Alessandro Baricco Dreams, video, animation, sad, movie, film, war, refuge, Japan, Holland, oriental eyes, secret affair, passionate music, love story, trailer, train, station, travel, migrants, migration, love, homesick, leave, holliday.
		As haunting as a strain of passionate music, Silk is an enchantment, an exquisite narrative and a stylistic tour de force.
		Silk by Alessandro Baricco at Random House-Vintage Fiction
	home.hetnet.nl /~pdduyvis/silk.html (292 words)

	Alessandro Baricco - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Alessandro Baricco - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
		Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958 where he still lives today.
		He is the author of the highly-acclaimed and internationally prize-winning novels, Silk and Ocean Sea.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000051639,00.html (64 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: City: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Number One bestseller on publication in Italy, CITY is a dazzlingly inventive novel from the prize-winning author of SILK.
		In Baricco's words: "CITY is an important title for me, because it expresses what this book has always been in my head.
		Not one of the characters intrigued or grabbed me, the supposed cityscape seemed indistinct and murky and the narrative was lifeless and confused.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140293280 (645 words)

	'City Reading: Tre Storie Western' by Air from The Portsmouth Chorus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This time the emphasis is on providing a subtle accompaniment to Baricco's dark Western tales penned through the hand of his alter-ego creation "Shatzy".
		Those who would rather not hear some of the stark content should rest at ease: Baricco's lucid, Gainsbourg-like tones smooth the experience, although a book with a literal translation is included.
		Instead of making another 'Moon Safari,' they've gone on to more challenging projects, such as writing the music for 'The Virgin Suicides.' This CD continues their soundtrack work, but this time their sublime music is used to accompany and imitate short stories and poetry provided by the Italian author Alessandro Baricco.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music/B00008J2S5 (501 words)

	Air & Alessandro Baricco
		We noticed that since Alessandro Baricco whispered at times, we had to turn the sound up very high.
		But I think the most challenging part was finding the right tone to match Alessandro's rendition.
		At times, during certain passages, Alessandro's voice is spellbinding.
	www.astralwerks.com /air/city_reading/air_interview.html (476 words)

	NME.COM - News - AIR - TELLING STORIES! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Air have collaborated with Italian writer ALESSANDRO BARICCO on a new album.
		A spokesperson for the band insisted this record was not the official follow-up, and that the duo hoped to release that sometime in 2004.
		According to ananova, Baricco originally contacted Air in summer 2002 to produce a live theatre performance of readings from one of his novels, 'City'.
	www.nme.com /news/104166.htm (209 words)

	Air & Alessandro Baricco: City Reading: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		City Reading is a collaboration between Air and writer Alessandro Baricco, in which Baricco reads text from his novel, City, to Air's backing tracks.
		I tried scanning the English translation of the text while listening, but it didn't interest me. Baricco's voice is very high in the mix, so much so that focusing on anything but him speaking the words is impossible.
		Somewhere back there, behind Baricco's purr, Air's tracks sound nice enough, although the cues they've constructed are obviously repetitive and meant as a soundtrack to something more important.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/air/city-reading.shtml (380 words)

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