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Novecento

by Alessandro Baricco

Devenu adulte, un orphelin, trouve dans un bateau sur un piano a queue, entreprend une brillante carriere de pianiste sans jamais quitter le dit bateau. Un texte qui a du charme, ecrit pour un comedien, dans lequel on retrouve l'humour fin et l'ecriture simple et savante de l'auteur de "Soie" (cf. la postface, p. 73-75), egalement auteur, en 1988, d'un essai sur la musique de Rossini.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?