Books by Alessandro Baricco
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review 1: This book contains a pair of linked novellas. The first is the story of a tremendously popular author who decides that he is no longer going to write anymore. He sets out to become a "copyist" but doesn't really even know what he means by this. It turns out the is going to write ...
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review 1: Baricco's books are short and beautiful. For my current travels, I decided not to bring with me many books, due to the weight and the evilness of the flying companies, but this one was one of the ones that travelled with me. How lucky (for me).It tells three little stories that a...
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review 1: Questa storia �� una strana storiaDopo una ouverture un po' bislacca, questa storia parte bene, come una corsa su un rettilineo, piacevole e facile da seguire. Conosciamo Ultimo, un bambino con un'ombra dorata, e la sua famiglia, il padre Libero, sognatore determinato, e la madre...
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review 1: "(...) hoe onnoemelijk breekbaar elke betovering is, en hoe razendsnel het leven is in zijn weggrissen."Jasper Gwyn, gevierd romanschrijver, ruilt proza op een dag in voor portretten. Portretten die hij schrijft, in een atelier waar alleen licht en soberheid de orde van de dag ui...
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review 1: I love the idea of a fiction in a fiction. I like the symbolism of sunrise and new beginnings. And I like that some of the thoughts in this book has their shadows. But it fails to be as deeply stirring as other books by Baricco.I guess it's a book that he wrote to entertain himse...
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review 1: Este es el Segundo libro que leo de Baricco, y me pareció extraordinario, tal y como Seda. Con una narración elegantemente entretejida, vamos conocido la vida de seis personas -años y existencias aparte, que convergen en un solo momento. Aunque intuimos que la existencia de cada ...
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review 1: Bello Baricco, como siempre. Tres pequeños y simples relatos, ajenos y a la vez relacionados entre ellos y con Mr. Gwyn, su anterior novela. Tres encuentros, dos extraños, siempre y el mismo sol y el amanecer. "Pues nada, es la historia de siempre, es el hombre de mi vida y yo so...
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review 1: Una storia da raccontare a proprio figlio il giorno che ti domanderà di spiegarti i tempi in cui viviamo. Baricco è davvero bravo nell'intrecciare furbescamente l'immaginazione con la realtà riuscendo a costruire un saggio godibile e leggero. Se è vero che nella contemporaneità, ...
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review 1: Es difícil pensar al terminar un libro, porque cada libro es un viaje y cuando vuelves de él, al doblar la última hoja, el mundo sigue igual, sólo el tiempo corre como uno corre al interior, sin moverse. El mundo sigue igual, pero no. Detectamos ligero cambio en nuestra forma de ...
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review 1: Ik heb het boek uiteindelijk maar weggelegd omdat ik me bijzonder ergerde aan de stijl van de schrijver. Grappig bedoelde flauwiteiten en een quasi ouwejongens-krentenbrood toontje. Verder wordt bij alles wat ook maar enige kennis van de lezer vereist een asteriskje gezet zodat j...
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review 1: Come sempre AB si dimostra un notevole divulgatore. Non credo che avrei mai letto un libro sulla metacultura se non da lui. Un onest'uomo vede appannarsi o svanire numerosi agganci sociali e riferimenti culturali. Invece di gridare e scalmanarsi prova a capirci qualcosa, annoda...
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review 1: Zware novelle. Iedereen is depressief of is op weg om dat in de nabije toekomst te worden. Maar hoe mooi weet Baricco dat te verwoorden! Dit is het tweede boekje van hem dat ik van hem gelezen heb. Waar 'Driemaal bij dageraad' vooral een oefening in stijl en structuur leek te zij...
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review 1: 50 pieces, 50 books, 1 a week. Baricco seems to like the short work; in "The Barbarians" also he assembled the pieces he wrote for an Italian paper. As a consequence there's a lot of disparity in the book, and in this case that is a blessing, because the diversity of the reviewed...