by Alessandro Baricco · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433966223
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«Novecento» is the short novel by Alessandro Baricco about a pianist born on an ocean liner, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (88 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the interwar years, it takes place aboard the transatlantic liner Virginian, which links Europe and America. Its pianist, Novecento, dazzles every night with prodigious technique and melodies no one has heard before. It is said he was born on the ship and never set foot off it, and that he measured his talent in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, the inventor of jazz.
The work belongs to Anagrama's Compactos collection and is a theatrical monologue that the author himself defined as a short novel or a long story. It was adapted to film by Giuseppe Tornatore under the title The Legend of 1900.
For readers of contemporary fiction and narrative monologues who want a brief story about music, memory, and the decision not to leave one's own world.
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.
