Alessandro Baricco (born the January 28th 1958 with Turin, Piedmont -) is a writer, Musicologue and man of theater Italy contemporary N.

Biography

After studies of Philosophy and Music, Alessandro Baricco is directed towards the world of the media while becoming writer in an advertizing agency first of all, then Journaliste and critical for Italian magazines. It also presented emissions on television Italian (SPOKE) on the lyric art and the literature. It is one of the collaborators of the newspaper Repubblica where it published in 2006 a serial, heading I Barbari (Barbarians).

In 1991, it publishes, at 33 years, its first novel “ Châteaux of the anger ”, for which it obtains, in France, the Prix Médicis foreign in 1995. He also wrote a work on the art of the running away at Gioacchino Rossini and a test, the Heart of Hegel and the Cows of Wisconsin where he fustigates the anti-modernity of the atonal Musique.

In 1994, with some friends, it founds and it directs to Turin a school of narration, the Scuola Holden - thus named in homage to a character of J.D. Salinger - a school on the techniques of the narration, where one can “learn how to write” initially; “to write like him” in the second time.

Impassioned and graduate in Music, Alessandro Barrico invents a style which mixes the literature, the narrative déconstruction and a musical presence which rate/rhythm the text like a partition. Its translator, Francoise Brown, writing, in connection with its style: “But what belongs only to him, it is astonishing it marriage between the jubilation by the writing, the joy of being in the world and of singing it, and the prégnant feeling of a fate, a destiny. ”

Eager of méler its texts to the music to enrich them (since it builds them in this spirit), it asks the musical group French Air to compose a music for City (2001). It follows from there a concert in which Air plays the music into live and Baricco reads its texts in public.