by Umberto Eco · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099481379
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«The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana» is Umberto Eco's illustrated novel, published by Vintage in paperback, 464 pages, in English.
After amnesia erases his life but not his reading, Yambo, a dealer in old books, searches the family attic: newspapers, comics, records, photos and diaries. He relives his youth in Mussolini's Italy, Catholic education, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon and Fred Astaire. His memory runs wild and his life takes the form of a graphic novel.
English edition of 2006, translated by Geoffrey Brock. The original Italian title is «La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana».
For readers of literary and historical fiction and for those who enjoy works that blend personal memory, popular culture and erudition.
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.
