The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Of Semiotics Umberto Eco

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Of Semiotics Umberto Eco

Brilliantly written and gorgeously illustrated . . . As we accompany Yambo on his trail of self-discovery, we see Umberto Eco, one of the great minds of our era, reveal a little of his heart. --Chicago Sun-Times
Eco . . . leaves the reader charmed . . . [His] latest feat of imagination burns with humane intelligence. --Philadelphia Inquirer
What if you woke up tomorrow and remembered nothing of your life? The faces of your spouse and children are strange, and the outlines of your childhood are only a blur. This is the crisis that Yambo, an Italian bookseller, faces when he regains consciousness after suffering a stroke. He is shocked to find, however, that he can remember every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, and a wealth of literary quotations.
Desperate to retrieve his past, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and life races before him in a series of images, as Yambo struggles to capture the most elusive one that of his first love.
Eco continues to write some of the most timeless and consistently engaging fiction out there. --Miami Herald

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Milan.
Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock

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	9780151011407
ISBN 10	0151011400
Title	The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Author	Of Semiotics Umberto Eco
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2005-06-03
Number of pages	469
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