Alessandro Baricco
Born: 01-01-1958
Alessandro Baricco is an acclaimed Italian novelist, essayist, and music critic, known for his lyrical prose and innovative narrative style. Born in Turin in 1958, Baricco gained international fame with works like "Silk" and "Ocean Sea," blending history, fantasy, and philosophy. He is also a co-founder of the Holden School, a creative writing institution in Italy, and continues to influence the literary world with his captivating storytelling.
Book summaries for books written by Alessandro Baricco
Quotes
Everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
The days and the nights, the weeks and the months and the years will go by and I will never do what I should have done.
It wasn't that she brought light to my life, she was my light.
You are ready to give your life, you are ready to be enslaved, you are ready to be humiliated, all for the sake of love, in the name of love.
She was carrying within her a great light, and a great darkness.
I know now that nothing is in vain.
She was waiting for something without knowing exactly what, and she was not unhappy.
To know, one must journey.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
When you are far away, you are still very near to me.
I can't understand what you are asking, because I'm not capable of understanding.
I think that I can understand everything, but I can't.