Alessandro Baricco (Turin, 1958), in addition to numerous essays and articles, is the author of the novels Glass Lands (Premio Selezione Campiello and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus, Mr Gwyn, as well as Three Times at Dawn, published in Anagram, as well as the majestic rewriting of Homer, Iliad, the theater monologue Novecento, the rehearsals of Next. On globalization and the next world and the barbarians. Mutation test.