Today's Italian literature enjoys a commendable variety in its main authors. From a Erri De Luca that even today is lavished on a literature overflowing with sensitivity and transformative ideology, up to a Camilleri inexhaustible in his role as ruler of the detective and crime novel even the youngest as Saviano, realistic to the depths of society, Moccia in his role as the mainstay of the romantic genre or the captivating Luca D'Andrea, recent European literary phenomenon.
Halfway through generation we find a Alessandro Baricco Cuya Biblography already acquires a considerable dimension and whose imprint provides a formal and thematic distinction that you may like more or less, but that ends up giving it a point of distinction, a stamp that immediately associates work and author because only he approaches their stories as if they were of their own genre. will try.
It is true that sometimes his books can be too "experimental", but it is no less true that his capacity for surprise brings freshness and transgressive intentionality from a style that, despite everything, is easy for any reader.
So, knowing that reading Baricco can always be a variable adventure from one to another of his books, let's go there with my selection ...
Top 3 recommended books by Alessandro Baricco
Silk
Everyone knows those great universal allegories that from Dante to The Little Prince seek the spectacular image of metaphor, of the narrated world transformed into a sum of symbols to be deciphered in a more or less evident or buried way.
It is about proposing a reading by inciting the intelligence of the reader, involving him and captivating him in making him a participant in what is being told. And this novel is a diffuse allegory, a sum of acts that resembles that journey in which each one finds the parallels with his life path, the comparisons in which metaphors are enjoyed to suit each individual's taste.
Hervé Joncour is the protagonist to invade his soul to walk the story and discover what a fascinatingly still lake in the middle of the whispering tempest is, a lake found after a long journey, like the one that the little prince just beginning his life walked or like was able to find Dante after going through the circles of hell.
As a background, basic notions about the human being such as love, pain and the resilience needed to survive towards some moment as beautiful as the observation of that lake that strangely seems frozen in time.
Without blood
The crime novel finds in Italy the last bastion, Camilleri, which still sustains its most detective origins. And perhaps that is why Baricco paid his particular tribute to this genre in a short novel in which blood precisely gushes out in a peaceful farm far from the world.
Perhaps because of how strange this author was to me and yet because of his peculiar even lyrical focus on death and revenge, the novel ended up captivating me. The game of history is black, very black, with its criminals and its victims.
But the role of Nina, the daughter of the massacred family is an invitation to introspection on our monstrosities and the awakening to violence and perpetual conflict that arises from the particular towards the generality of the environment.
The young wife
A surprising novel, once again disruptive (so that Baricco's readers will not settle). We travel to an awakening of the twentieth century in which the harmony in Italian and Argentine idiosyncrasy, awakened from the Italian emigrations of the late nineteenth century, serve to raise a story of concerted love and free love, all converging in the same official lovers whose marriage planned appears as a bizarre excuse to enter an unrestricted manners, where the custom shown is that of the most contradictory and real interiorities.
With a disturbing erotic touch, with hints of tragicomedy in a microcosm of fascinating characters, this novel does not leave anyone indifferent and demonstrates Baricco's ability to move from the visceral.
