The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is perhaps as close as Eco may ever come to writing an "autobiographical" novel. The main character, a middle-aged Italian who makes his living selling rare books, suffers a memory loss/5(). The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is perhaps as close as Eco may ever come to writing an "autobiographical" novel. The main character, a middle-aged Italian who makes his living selling rare books, suffers a memory loss. This provides Eco with the chance to explore the relationship that every individual has to their memories, and to consider /5(). The premise of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, may strike some readers as laughably unpromising, and others as breathtakingly rich. A sixty-ish Milanese antiquarian bookseller nicknamed Yambo suffers a stroke and loses his memory of everything but the words he has read: poems, scenes from novels, miscellaneous quotations/5().
About The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Author: Umberto Eco Genre: Contemporary, Mystery Pages: Published in: Umberto Eco was an Italian writer, philosopher, essayist, and academic. He's known for the extensive use of semiotics in his fiction. "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" is Eco's fifth novel, and like the others it comprises both traditional narrative storytelling and inventive discourses on arcane subjects while drawing. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is perhaps as close as Eco may ever come to writing an "autobiographical" novel. The main character, a middle-aged Italian who makes his living selling rare books, suffers a memory loss.
Italian novelist, scholar and all-around polymath Umberto Eco never met a byte of cultural data he didn't like, and his new novel -- or whatever this is -- is no exception. Part comic book, part scholarly dissertation and part faux-memoir, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is a work of spectacular appetites and epic confusion. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel. by Umberto Eco, translated by Geoffrey Brock. pp, Secker Warburg, £ The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in , and an English language translation by Geoffrey Brock was published in spring The title is taken from the title of an Italian edition album of an episode of the American comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck.
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