Alessandro Baricco answers the most complex questions. “What am I like? The most honest answer is that I'm fine, otherwise I wouldn't be here. Then I'm someone who spent the summer in the hospital and leaves beautiful pieces of themselves behind. When you leave you have to salvage pieces, it's going uphill. I had to brush my teeth and was so weak I couldn't do it except move my head and I wondered if I would ever get out. I'm doing great now. It's a long journey, which I haven't finished yet, there is a relentless slowness.” Said the author in the study of Che tempo che fa, interviewed by Fabio Fazio.
Baricco's return and the meaning of life
by Riccardo Luna December 22, 2023
Black hat, checkered scarf, gloves. Baricco makes his first television appearance after the long illness that forced him to leave the scene, he announced on social media.
Tonight he says he got married in December. “It is the master, it is the body, how many good and bad things it dictates to you in life. Panic attacks are a brilliant thing the body does. You don't want to tell yourself that you're not okay.” the world and it tells you. With my body, “we experienced crazy moments together.”
Abel, the gunslinger in Alessandro Baricco's metaphysical West
by Maurizio Crosetti December 6, 2023
Why the decision to communicate the disease on social media? “It was a practical decision, you have to say you're not feeling well and they have to understand it. Social media didn't exist before. This happened to me twice and it was very useful. I found out that there is a lot of people who help me love. This wave of true affection. She had given their lives meaning and they missed a teacher with whom they had an intimate relationship. I had an unpleasant past, I wasn't used to the world loving me. It was a “powerful experience.” The fact that celebrity illnesses have become juicy news makes me a little baffled. A vicious circle has begun, too many people tell details, which creates a fear effect. I don't know if we're conveying the right message. My illness is an anomaly, one in a hundred thousand suffers from it. Don’t worry.” Fear? “We sell it a lot, and that’s one of the things we do wrong. Fear has to do with desire, you stop desiring and start being afraid. It is desire that destroys fear.”
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