CINEMATIC NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES OF BARICCO’S PROSE

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the cinematic narrative techniques of the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco’s prose. The connection between his narrative and cinematography is noted. The author's works have an ‘audiovisual’ dimension that guarantees the written word the same communicative possibilities as cinema. Having analysed the narrative techniques of the author's works (“Ocean Sea”, “Silk”, “Novecento”, “Thrice at Dawn”), it is found that they manifest such cinematic techniques as montage, close-up, mise-en-scene. Some of his works are similar to film scripts: scenery, gestures, movements of characters are shown