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Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old. Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their reunion brings about a profound reappraisal of their lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier. Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives readers in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands across Europe.
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Alessandro Baricco (Author)
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of six novels, including Silk and Without Blood, all of which have been translated into English. His latest novel, Questa Storia, was recently published to great acclaim in Italy, and ...
SILK (EXCERPT)
By: Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco After receiving degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and piano, he published essays on music criticism: Il genio in fuga (1988) on Gioachino Rossini, and L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin ('Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin', 1992) on the relation between music and modernity. He subsequently worked as musical critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre. Baricco debuted as a novelist with Castelli di rabbia (translated as Lands of Glass) in 1991. In 1993 he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin, naming it Scuola Holden after J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses on narrative techniques including screenwriting, journalism, videogames, novels and short stories.
Alessandro Baricco In the following years his fame grew enormously throughout Europe, with his works topping the Italian and French best-seller lists. Larger recognition followed the adaptation of his theatrical monologue Novecento into the movie The Legend of 1900, directed by Academy Award-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore. He has also worked with the French band Air, releasing 'City Reading', a mix of the band's music with Baricco's reading of his novel City.
He has directed the film Lezione 21 on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and its critical reception.
His Works Novels Castelli di rabbia, Rizzoli 1991, Tascabili Bompiani 1994; Lands of Glass, Penguin 1992. Awarded with Prix Médicis étranger – France Oceano Mare, Rizzoli 1993; Ocean Sea, ISBN 0-375-70395-0, 1993. Awarded with 'Palazzo al Bosco' — Italy
Novecento. Un monologo, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1994; Novecento: pianist, 1994. Seta, Rizzoli 1996; Silk, ISBN 978-0-30727797-8, 1996. (See Silk for the film adaptation.)
City (original title), ISBN 978-0-375-725487 (edition in English), Rizzoli 1999. Constellations (original title), 1999.
His Works Senza sangue, Rizzoli 2002; Without Blood ISBN 1-4000-3478-7, 2002. (Also published in revised form in The New Yorker) Questa storia, Fandango 2005.
Emmaus, Feltrinelli 2009. Mr Gwyn, Feltrinelli 2011. Tre volte all'alba, Feltrinelli 2012.
Smith & Wesson, Feltrinelli 2014. La Sposa giovane, Feltrinelli 2015.
His Works Theater Totem, a literary and musical happening staged in various locations throughout Italy with varying structure and contents. Mostly it consisted of a twonight theatrical event in which Baricco himself, helped by director Gabriele Vacis, actor Eugenio Allegri and musician Daniele Sepe, would read and comment on bits of literature from all centuries and countries, accompanying them with music. In 2001 Rizzoli published the video of Totem recorded in Milan in 1997.
His Works Novecento, Feltrinelli 1994; The Legend of 1900 (1994) – originally a monologue for theater staged by director Gabriele Vacis, adapted in 1998 into a film by Giuseppe Tornatore, La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, with music composed by Ennio Morricone. Davila Roa, staged only once by director Luca Ronconi. Reportedly a huge fiasco, it was never published in written form.
His Works Omero, Iliade, Feltrinelli 2004; An Iliad, Vintage International 2004 ( ISBN 978-0307-27539-4 ) – a rewriting of Homer's Iliad consisting of 24 chapters, each telling a part of the story through the eyes and words of a prominent character in the poem. The theatrical event from which the book originated was staged only twice due to its logistic difficulties: it spanned over three nights during which the best contemporary Italian actors would impersonate one character each, eight per night.
His Works Cinema
Partita Spagnola, Audino Editore 2003 (screenplay never shot). Lecture 21, 2008 (written and directed). Collected short writings[edit] Barnum. Cronache dal Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1995 Barnum 2. Altre cronache del Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1998 Next. Piccolo libro sulla globalizzazione e il mondo che verrà, Feltrinelli 2002 Il nuovo Barnum, Feltrinelli 2016
His Works
Essays Il genio in fuga. Sul teatro musicale di Rossini, Il Melangolo 1988, Einaudi 1997 L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin, Garzanti 1992 I Barbari, La Repubblica 2006
His Awards Prix Médicis étranger — France Selezione Campiello — Italy Viareggio – Italy Palazzo al Bosco – Italy
STORY ANALYSIS
Elements of Fiction
Setting
Mood
Place- Japan
Light
Time- 1854
Elements of Fiction
Character
Type of Plot
The main character or the The type of plot in this novel is protagonist is Herve Joncour, episodic. a French Adventurer. He has a dangerous mission to smuggle silkworm eggs from Japan. It was very hard for him to accomplish his mission, because at that time bringing silkworm eggs outside of Japan was considered a crime.
Elements of Fiction
Conflict
Point of View
The conflict in the story is Herve Joncour is married.
The author Used the third person’s point of view.
Also that the Japanese girl belongs to Hara Kei. That’s why if Herve Joncour and the girl continue their relationship Hara Kei will kill him.
Elements of Fiction
Theme
Style
Love in a Strange Place
The author used descriptive and narrative style.
Elements of Fiction
Symbols Cup- it symbolizes the desire between Herve Joncour and the Japanese girl.
Plot Summary Hervé Joncour travels the world buying silkworm eggs and eventually travels as far as Japan. He buys eggs from Hara Kei, a French-speaking nobleman. Joncour falls in love with his mistress. During his second visit to Japan, Joncour learns about the aviary of exotic birds that Hara Kei has built; he leaves a glove for Hara Kei's mistress to find in a pile of clothes. Hara Kei's mistress gives him a love note written in Japanese that says, 'Come back, or I shall die.' During Joncour's third visit to Japan, Hara Kei's mistress releases the birds from the aviary. Joncour and Hara Kei's mistress have sex by proxy. Hara Kei conducts the silkworm egg transaction via an associate and does not say goodbye when Joncour leaves. When it is time for Joncour to make a fourth trip to Japan, war has broken out. He finds Hara Kei's village burned to the ground. A young boy appears and gives him the glove that he had dropped on the pile of Hara Kei's mistress's clothes. He follows the boy to the place where the refugees from Hara Kei's village are camping.
Plot Summary Hara Kei denies Joncour welcome but Joncour refuses to leave. The next morning, Joncour sees the body of the boy hanging from a tree; Hara Kei has executed him for carrying the glove to Joncour and bringing him back to the village. Joncour hastily procures a supply of eggs but leaves far too late in the season to transport them to France. The silk mills sit idle that year.
One day, he receives a letter written in Japanese. He takes it to Madame Blanche. It is an erotic love letter from a woman to her beloved master. Madame Blanche gives him some of her trademark blue flowers. Joncour retires from the silkworm egg business; he and Hélène have three daughters. Baldabiou leaves Lavilledieu suddenly and is not heard from again. Hélène dies of a fever several years later. On a visit to her grave, Joncour sees Madame Blanche's blue flowers there. He visits her and learns that his wife is the author of the letter.
The End Thank You!
By: Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco After receiving degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and piano, he published essays on music criticism: Il genio in fuga (1988) on Gioachino Rossini, and L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin ('Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin', 1992) on the relation between music and modernity. He subsequently worked as musical critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre. Baricco debuted as a novelist with Castelli di rabbia (translated as Lands of Glass) in 1991. In 1993 he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin, naming it Scuola Holden after J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses on narrative techniques including screenwriting, journalism, videogames, novels and short stories.
Alessandro Baricco In the following years his fame grew enormously throughout Europe, with his works topping the Italian and French best-seller lists. Larger recognition followed the adaptation of his theatrical monologue Novecento into the movie The Legend of 1900, directed by Academy Award-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore. He has also worked with the French band Air, releasing 'City Reading', a mix of the band's music with Baricco's reading of his novel City.
He has directed the film Lezione 21 on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and its critical reception.
His Works Novels Castelli di rabbia, Rizzoli 1991, Tascabili Bompiani 1994; Lands of Glass, Penguin 1992. Awarded with Prix Médicis étranger – France Oceano Mare, Rizzoli 1993; Ocean Sea, ISBN 0-375-70395-0, 1993. Awarded with 'Palazzo al Bosco' — Italy
Novecento. Un monologo, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1994; Novecento: pianist, 1994. Seta, Rizzoli 1996; Silk, ISBN 978-0-30727797-8, 1996. (See Silk for the film adaptation.)
City (original title), ISBN 978-0-375-725487 (edition in English), Rizzoli 1999. Constellations (original title), 1999.
His Works Senza sangue, Rizzoli 2002; Without Blood ISBN 1-4000-3478-7, 2002. (Also published in revised form in The New Yorker) Questa storia, Fandango 2005.
Emmaus, Feltrinelli 2009. Mr Gwyn, Feltrinelli 2011. Tre volte all'alba, Feltrinelli 2012.
Smith & Wesson, Feltrinelli 2014. La Sposa giovane, Feltrinelli 2015.
His Works Theater Totem, a literary and musical happening staged in various locations throughout Italy with varying structure and contents. Mostly it consisted of a twonight theatrical event in which Baricco himself, helped by director Gabriele Vacis, actor Eugenio Allegri and musician Daniele Sepe, would read and comment on bits of literature from all centuries and countries, accompanying them with music. In 2001 Rizzoli published the video of Totem recorded in Milan in 1997.
His Works Novecento, Feltrinelli 1994; The Legend of 1900 (1994) – originally a monologue for theater staged by director Gabriele Vacis, adapted in 1998 into a film by Giuseppe Tornatore, La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, with music composed by Ennio Morricone. Davila Roa, staged only once by director Luca Ronconi. Reportedly a huge fiasco, it was never published in written form.
His Works Omero, Iliade, Feltrinelli 2004; An Iliad, Vintage International 2004 ( ISBN 978-0307-27539-4 ) – a rewriting of Homer's Iliad consisting of 24 chapters, each telling a part of the story through the eyes and words of a prominent character in the poem. The theatrical event from which the book originated was staged only twice due to its logistic difficulties: it spanned over three nights during which the best contemporary Italian actors would impersonate one character each, eight per night.
His Works Cinema
Partita Spagnola, Audino Editore 2003 (screenplay never shot). Lecture 21, 2008 (written and directed). Collected short writings[edit] Barnum. Cronache dal Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1995 Barnum 2. Altre cronache del Grande Show, Feltrinelli 1998 Next. Piccolo libro sulla globalizzazione e il mondo che verrà, Feltrinelli 2002 Il nuovo Barnum, Feltrinelli 2016
His Works
Essays Il genio in fuga. Sul teatro musicale di Rossini, Il Melangolo 1988, Einaudi 1997 L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin, Garzanti 1992 I Barbari, La Repubblica 2006
His Awards Prix Médicis étranger — France Selezione Campiello — Italy Viareggio – Italy Palazzo al Bosco – Italy
STORY ANALYSIS
Elements of Fiction
Setting
Mood
Place- Japan
Light
Time- 1854
Elements of Fiction
Character
Type of Plot
The main character or the The type of plot in this novel is protagonist is Herve Joncour, episodic. a French Adventurer. He has a dangerous mission to smuggle silkworm eggs from Japan. It was very hard for him to accomplish his mission, because at that time bringing silkworm eggs outside of Japan was considered a crime.
Elements of Fiction
Conflict
Point of View
The conflict in the story is Herve Joncour is married.
The author Used the third person’s point of view.
Also that the Japanese girl belongs to Hara Kei. That’s why if Herve Joncour and the girl continue their relationship Hara Kei will kill him.
Elements of Fiction
Theme
Style
Love in a Strange Place
The author used descriptive and narrative style.
Elements of Fiction
Symbols Cup- it symbolizes the desire between Herve Joncour and the Japanese girl.
Plot Summary Hervé Joncour travels the world buying silkworm eggs and eventually travels as far as Japan. He buys eggs from Hara Kei, a French-speaking nobleman. Joncour falls in love with his mistress. During his second visit to Japan, Joncour learns about the aviary of exotic birds that Hara Kei has built; he leaves a glove for Hara Kei's mistress to find in a pile of clothes. Hara Kei's mistress gives him a love note written in Japanese that says, 'Come back, or I shall die.' During Joncour's third visit to Japan, Hara Kei's mistress releases the birds from the aviary. Joncour and Hara Kei's mistress have sex by proxy. Hara Kei conducts the silkworm egg transaction via an associate and does not say goodbye when Joncour leaves. When it is time for Joncour to make a fourth trip to Japan, war has broken out. He finds Hara Kei's village burned to the ground. A young boy appears and gives him the glove that he had dropped on the pile of Hara Kei's mistress's clothes. He follows the boy to the place where the refugees from Hara Kei's village are camping.
Plot Summary Hara Kei denies Joncour welcome but Joncour refuses to leave. The next morning, Joncour sees the body of the boy hanging from a tree; Hara Kei has executed him for carrying the glove to Joncour and bringing him back to the village. Joncour hastily procures a supply of eggs but leaves far too late in the season to transport them to France. The silk mills sit idle that year.
One day, he receives a letter written in Japanese. He takes it to Madame Blanche. It is an erotic love letter from a woman to her beloved master. Madame Blanche gives him some of her trademark blue flowers. Joncour retires from the silkworm egg business; he and Hélène have three daughters. Baldabiou leaves Lavilledieu suddenly and is not heard from again. Hélène dies of a fever several years later. On a visit to her grave, Joncour sees Madame Blanche's blue flowers there. He visits her and learns that his wife is the author of the letter.
The End Thank You!