Progetto Cultura Italiana Progetto Cultura Italiana: Novecento - Alessandro Baricco

QUADERNI DI LETTERATURA ITALIANA

This supplementary resource allows students to deepen their knowledge of the Italian language and develop their key skills by working through exercises on a significant work of contemporary Italian literature. NOTE: This book does not include the full literary text.

The focus of this book is Baricco's 'Novecento' which tells extraordinary story of Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon Novecento. Abandoned as a newborn baby aboad a transatlantic steamer, the protagonist takes his name from the century in which he was born, the beginning of the 1900s. A gifted pianist, he lives a surreal and fascinating life dedicated to his music, never setting foot on dry land, but living his entire life aboad the Virginian where he watches the world pass him by.