by Umberto Eco · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483462027
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In 'Baudolino', Umberto Eco transports us to the medieval Europe of the 12th and 13th centuries, where reality and fantasy intertwine in a fictionalized chronicle. Baudolino, a Piedmontese peasant with an overflowing imagination, becomes the adopted son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His inventions shape history, creating the legend of Prester John and his kingdom in the East. He accompanies Frederick on a crusade in search of the Holy Grail, facing monsters and living adventures full of magic and mystery. This Debolsillo edition offers a picaresque adventure and a reflection on the nature of truth and fiction.
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.
