Novecento
Alessandro BariccoIllustrated book


Selected for the 9th Ibero-American Illustration Catalogue | Unpublished project (Escola Massana)
A series of illustrations based on Alessandro Baricco’s novel Novecento.
“In the interwar years, an ocean liner, the Virginian, traversed the routes between Europe and America. Aboard the Virginian, an extraordinary pianist named Novecento played every night with a wonderful technique, capable of striking magical, unheard-of notes. It was said that the melancholic pianist was born on the ship, which he had never stepped off, and that no one knew why.”
A series of illustrations based on Alessandro Baricco’s novel Novecento.
“In the interwar years, an ocean liner, the Virginian, traversed the routes between Europe and America. Aboard the Virginian, an extraordinary pianist named Novecento played every night with a wonderful technique, capable of striking magical, unheard-of notes. It was said that the melancholic pianist was born on the ship, which he had never stepped off, and that no one knew why.”
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