Tristano
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nanni Balestrini ; translated by Mike Harakis ; with a foreword by Umberto Eco
Contributors: Harakis, Mike, translator
Edition: English-language edition.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781781681695
Subjects: Love stories; Fiction
Work titles: Tristano
Description: What happens when a love story has an infinite number of possible endings? What if a computer re-sorts a novel so that no copy is the same? A radical assault upon the novel from one of Italy's most radical artists. The story involves two lovers, there is disruption on the streets of Milan, protesters by Porta Ticinese. Can they escape and be together? How will events change their destiny? In Tristano, Nanni Balestrini brilliantly experiments with form and storytelling to create a new type of novel in which technology, author and the reader themselves collaborate to create the narrative. Constructed of ten chapters, each consisting of twenty texts taken from guidebooks, atlases, newspapers and fiction, each printed edition of the novel is ordered uniquely.