by Umberto Eco · Destino CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423324859
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«L'illa del dia abans» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Destino CAT in paperback (541 pages, in Catalan).
The work is set in the South Seas of the 17th century and follows a young Piedmontese nobleman who, after a shipwreck, reaches an abandoned ship facing an island that seems unreachable. His attempt to unravel the secret of the Fixed Point articulates a baroque plot of mystery, adventure and science.
This Catalan edition was published in 1996 and belongs to the L'Ancora collection. The translation is by Antoni Vicens; the Italian original, L'isola del giorno prima, appeared in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction, Italian literature and adventure stories with a philosophical backdrop.
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.
