Alessandro Barikko. “Several times this book saved my life when I was in a hurry”

In Abel, Metaphysical West, which mixes a bold mural and parable, focuses on the famous shooter trying to find the meaning of his life on the thread of his life, where there are three women, his sister, his sister
and magical wisdom witch. Delicate literary compositions with renewed imagination and music construction, where men and women are looking for fate, whether it is a pianist born on a plate.November) either the buyer and reseller of the silkworks (Silk)A number

Madame Figaro. – You are back to Western American West today City What does this fabulous area present?
Alessandro Barikko. A little I was thinking about taking an existing chess board and playing another part of the previous ones. I could choose science fiction or pirate story … but the most western genre. It is also the father of all genres. I liked to use it and I found deep options that don’t seem obvious to me, for example, the role of women, which is west, in general. Abel, On the contrary, they are the spine.

What is the genesis of this text that seems to be the first
Passages you have not published for publication.
I started To destroy Writing that just for me. I had no intrigue idea, even in the end. I saw the scenes I saw that I was born in my imagination. I did it because writing for me became a kind of TAO, a gesture where I find some balance and pure freedom for me. A kind of tea ceremony. I have to do it. Publishing is something else, it is not necessary. It’s a beautiful thing that can happen but it won’t happen either.

One day you said that any book was self-determination. How long To destroy That’s it
Well … I have to say that over time I had to meet the facts. We all write and only on ourselves. What, young, I was inclined to deny. But it obviously found me so that we write to make votes on their own, not necessarily we live, but nothing else. So yes, in Abel, There are a lot of things that bother me but not more than inside Silken Or Novecento.

You are a pianist, composer and philosopher. What role did this book play?
In fact, I play the piano but not so good and I have never made music. But I wrote a lot about him, yes, I still do it, and it has definitely affected my literary style if there is one. Abel, In particular, it is very musical, in the sense that it is written for a large flavor of rhythm, melody, stamps, measurements. Sometimes appear to be written in the passage. It has a special sound, and I am happy in French, thanks to the magnificent work of Liz Kancillat and the Knowing of Two languages, we can hear so clearly.