![]() ![]() Four years later, in 1998, Giuseppe Tornatore directed a movie based on the monologue, The Legend of 1900. Italian publishing company Feltrinelli published the text the same year: the writer described this work as halfway between a play and a tale to be read loud. Novecento was meant to become a play directed by Gabriele Vacis and performed by Eugenio Allegri. He won several prizes and his works have been translated into a number of languages. In the same year, he founded Scuola Holden, a school for storytelling and the performing arts. Novecento is the protagonist of a theatrical monologue named after him, written in 1994 by Alessandro Baricco, an Italian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter living in Turin. He seems to be at one with the keyboard and on that keyboard, he would live his whole life. One night he started playing the piano in the first-class concert hall, enchanting the whole crew. ![]() Born on a ship, he grew up in the engine room. Novecento has never in his life walked a step on dry land. ![]()
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