A legend is born, the legend of the pianist on the ocean. His skill will fascinate passengers so much that they will talk of nothing else on dry land. Novecento reappears in the ballroom sitting at the piano: his life begins at that precise moment. His novels have been translated into a wide number of. I mean … We were in more than a thousand, on that ship, among rich travelers, and emigrants, and weird people, and we …Īfter the death of his adoptive father he disappears and for a few days nobody has heard from him. Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin, Piedmont and is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. It always happened that at one point one raised his head … and he saw it. Novecento, to give it its original title, was written in 1994 by Italian novelist and essayist Alessandro Baricco as a story/monologue for the actor Eugenio. The small Novecento, however, have sticking points and these are the Virginian, the sea and the music: Lemon Novecento: abandoned as a child on the transatlantic Virginian he is cared for by sailor Danny Boodman, who after only eight years dies leaving him orphaned for the second time. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Alessandro Baricco in Novecento.īaricco with his words composes music for mind journeys.įrom the pages of Novecento an extraordinary character emerges, Danny Boodman T. You are infinite, and inside those keys, infinite is the music you can play. You know I’m 88, nobody can care about this.
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