L'isola del giorno prima by Umberto Eco
A profound and ingenious story artfully told . . . Renaissance battles, love poems, and sea journeys in the age of exploration. --The New York Times Book ReviewRoberto della Griva is an Italian nobleman living in 1643. His mission is to travel the South Pacific and discover the means by which navigators can understand the mystery of longitude. After a violent storm, however, Roberto finds himself shipwrecked--on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, but the crew is missing.
As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chapters from his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father; and the lessons given him on fencing, blasphemy, and the writing of love letters. The Island of the Day Before is a fascinating, lyrical tale about a young dreamer's search for love and meaning.
A masterpiece . . . intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing. --Chicago Tribune
A story both thought provoking and surprisingly humorous. USA Today
Umberto Eco . . . is the last of the great 20th century polymathic fabulists in the tradition of Joyce and Nabokov and Borges. The Wall Street Journal
UMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and collections of essays. He lives in Milan.
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Umberto Eco's (1932-2016) work has been crucial in understanding the history of the twentieth century and our own time. For a long time, he devoted himself to university teaching, and his essays are required reading at universities all over the world. Obra abierta, Apocalpticos y integrados, La estructura ausente, Tratado de semiótica general, Lector in fabula, Semiótica y filosofa del lenguaje, Los lmites de la interpretación, Joyce's poéticas, Segundo diario mnimo, El superhombre de masas, Seis paseos por los bosques With El nombre de la rose, a novel published more than thirty years ago, he had a triumphant debut in the world of fiction, establishing himself as an author admired not only by critics, but also by the general public. El péndulo de Foucault, La isla del da de antes, Baudolino, La misteriosa llama de la reina Loana, El cementerio de Praga, and Number Cero followed this first success. Umberto Eco's póstuma, De la estupidez a la locura, was published a few days before his death, on the 19th of February, 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9788845246449 |
| ISBN 10 | 8845246442 |
| Title | L'isola del giorno prima |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bompiani |
| Year published | 1996-10-23 |
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