by Umberto Eco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246615019
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«Baudolino» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Bernard Grasset in paperback (557 pages, in French).
Baudolino, a peasant from northern Italy, recounts how his gift for fabulation leads him to be adopted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, to study in Paris, and to become embroiled in the Fourth Crusade. Between adventure and erudition, Eco blends history and fantasy: the invention of the letter of Prester John and a journey to a legendary East.
Winner of the Prix Méditerranée Étranger in 2002. Translation by Jean-Noël Schifano.
For readers of historical fiction and medieval fiction who appreciate irony, erudition, and the fantastic.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
