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486pages. poche. Broché. D'abord le titre. Une ville. Pas une ville précise. Plutôt l'empreinte d'une ville quelconque. Son squelette. Je pensais aux histoires que j'avais dans la tête ccmme à des quartiers. Et j'imaginais des personnages qui étaient des rues, et qui certaines fois ccmmençaient et mouraient dans un quartier, d'autres fois traversaient la ville entière, accumulant des quartiers et des mondes qui n'avaient rien à voir les uns avec les autres et qui pourtant étaient la même ville. Je voulais écrire un livre qui bouge ccmme quelqu'un qui se perd dans une ville. Des personnages -des rues -il y en a beaucoup: il y a un coiffeur qui le jeudi coupe les cheveux gratis, il y en a un qui est un géant, un autre qui est muet. Il y a un petit garçon qui s'appelle Gould, et une fille qui s'appelle Shatzy Shell (rien à voir avec celui de l'essence). Il y a aussi dans City deux quartiers, assez vastes, un peu décalés en arrière dans le temps. Il y a une histoire de boxe, et il y a un western. Le western, c'est quelque chose à quoi je pensais depuis des années. J'étais toujours là à essayer de m'imaginer ccmment diable on pouvait bien faire pour écrire la fusillade finale. Quant à la boxe, là c'est un monde dingue, superbe. Si en plus tu es quelqu'un qui écrit, tôt ou tard tu y viens. Mieux vaut tôt, me suis-je dit. A. B.

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Baricco has inventiveness in spades, and his freaks have the capacity to chill the blood or warm the heart. -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review
" Filled with wild invention and lyrical prose . . . Conventional characters and superheroes alike behave with the wild abandon we have come to recognize in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don De Lillo and Robert Coover. City is simultaneously hilarious and profoundly sad. "-- The" "Washington Post Book World
" An imaginative, surprisingly poignant Italian reinvention of what has become a staple of American teen fiction: the saga of marginalized members of society who find comfort in each other. -- "Booklist
" Along with flashes of love it reveals for old-fashioned storytelling, City boldly displays its futurist credentials Baricco s narrative virtuosity continues to astonish. "--The Independent" (London)
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"Baricco has inventiveness in spades, and his freaks have the capacity to chill the blood or warm the heart." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Filled with wild invention and lyrical prose . . . Conventional characters and superheroes alike behave with the wild abandon we have come to recognize in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don De Lillo and Robert Coover. City is simultaneously hilarious and profoundly sad." -- The Washington Post Book World
"An imaginative, surprisingly poignant Italian reinvention of what has become a staple of American teen fiction: the saga of marginalized members of society who find comfort in each other."-- Booklist
"Along with flashes of love it reveals for old-fashioned storytelling, City boldly displays its futurist credentials...Baricco's narrative virtuosity continues to astonish." --The Independent (London)

About the Author

Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. The author of three previous novels, he has won the Prix Medicis etranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio, and Palazzo del Bosco prizes in Italy. His third novel, Silk, became an immediate best-seller in Italy and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. It is the basis of a forthcoming opera by Andre Previn and a film to be produced by Miramax.

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  • PublisherGallimard Education
  • Publication date2001
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  • ISBN 13 9782070419579
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