by Umberto Eco · Prometheus, Uitgeverij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789035117723
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«Het eiland van de vorige dag» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Prometheus, Uitgeverij in paperback (489 pages, in Dutch).
In seventeenth-century Europe, Roberto, a young nobleman who survives war, prison, and shipwreck, reaches a Pacific island on the 180th meridian. Alone on the solitary Daphne, he gazes at the neighboring island beyond the reefs; reaching it could reverse time and his misfortunes. He is obsessed with an unattainable beauty.
Work translated into Dutch by Yond Boeke from the original Italian «L'isola del giorno prima» (1994).
For readers of historical and adventure fiction who enjoy philosophical reflection and the scientific context of the Baroque.
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.
