El nuevo Barnum

This book contains the articles that Alessandro Baricco has been publishing in various journalistic media over the last twenty years. The title refers to the famous businessman PT Barnum, creator of the show based on "geek" phenomena, since Baricco approaches contemporary culture as if it were a circus where various tracks follow each other in a kaleidoscopic way, where there is room for manifestations of popular culture even those considered as high culture: sports, television, literature, cinema, theater, photography, classical music, but also more serious aspects such as the controversies about subsidies (or not) to the world of culture or the attack on the Twin Towers.