by Umberto Eco · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401413131
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«La isla del día de antes» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (410 pages, in Spanish).
In 1643, the young Piedmontese Roberto de la Grive is shipwrecked and arrives on a deserted ship full of strange animals and machines. Before him, an island seems close yet unreachable. His letters to the Lady reveal his past of duels and loves and his initiation into the new science, espionage and the Thirty Years' War, in search of the Fixed Point.
The work is a translation from the Italian «L'isola del giorno prima» (1994) and belongs to the Ave Fénix collection of Plaza & Janés.
Recommended for readers of historical and philosophical fiction, especially followers of Umberto Eco and the European 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.
