Alessandro Baricco, one of the most popular and mysterious European writers of our days, retells in his own way Homer’s “Iliad” - perhaps the greatest world literary monument of all time.

“The Iliad for Barrico becomes a hymn war, filled nevertheless with an unchanging desire for peace. The ancient text is valuable to him precisely because it is able to shed light on the mysteries of modern civilization. As the author herself admits, he is trying to “build a denser wall from Homeric bricks.” Having chosen the form of a living subjective narrative, Barrico does not deny himself the right to boldly invade the complex narrative structure created by Homer. He reinterprets the ancient story of the Trojan War and dares to speak out loud shades of meaning that remained hidden between the lines of the Iliad for almost three millennia.