by Umberto Eco · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495965721
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«Baudolino» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Booket in paperback (509 pages, in Spanish).
A Piedmontese peasant gifted in languages and fabulation becomes the adopted son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His invented letter about the kingdom of Prester John drives an expedition eastward in search of the Holy Grail, through lands of wondrous creatures and fabulous realms, in a narrative that blends the picaresque, history, and fantasy.
The work was originally published in 2000; this Booket edition appeared in September 2002 and won the Mediterranean Prize 2002.
For readers of historical and fantasy fiction interested in medieval Europe, legends, and picaresque adventure.
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.
