Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code"[1].
Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.[2] He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many essays.
Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts - a talent for learning foreign languages and skill in relling lies. One day, when still a boy, he met a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander - who proves to be the emperor Frederick Barbarossa - adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king who was said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East - a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. As always with Eco, this abundant novel includes dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, pages of extraordinary feeling and poetry, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age. Baudolino is an utterly marvelous tale by the inimitable author of The Name of the Rose.
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我決定把自己的打分標準下調一下。雖然這樣比較對不起那些我還未打分的書們。 以後3星的意思就是,我個人覺得不錯,但是不保證你讀瞭也會喜歡。 這幾天進入瞭所謂鞦末大搶收。之前同時開始讀的好幾本書接連步入結局。除瞭《中國哲學簡史》這類,我很討厭把書讀完的感覺。用最...
評分這是一部神奇的小說,說其神奇並不是形容詞,而是名詞,因為貫穿全書的約翰王祭司的事跡在中世紀的歐洲廣為流傳。顯然作者也是以此為全書的中心。 波多裏諾是個騙子,問題是他是否隻是騙騙腓特烈大帝,還是連這個找尋約翰王的故事也是假的,又或者乾脆沒有波多裏諾這個人,一切...
評分埃科在最後留下瞭一個漏洞,好像是一個漏洞。小說最開始的時候波多裏諾對尼塞塔敘述他的經曆時強調瞭自己從未殺過人除瞭自己的養父腓特烈大帝,但在小說的最後波多裏諾並不知道自己殺瞭自己的養父,這還是尼塞塔找來帕夫努吉歐經過推斷纔讓讀者知道腓特烈大帝死於誰手。波多裏...
評分獻給所有的創作者。 一切故事的作者都希望能夠創造一個真實而令人信服的世界,將謊言與不完美小心翼翼地隱藏起來,就像真相大白的時候波羅內的臨彆之辭一樣—— “我會開始撰寫關於‘葛拉達’的事跡,我的記述將會是我唯一的力量。我故事當中的騎士將會比我們優越,讓讀者夢想...
評分成於一個通宵後的上午,文責自負,如果我還清醒的話。 講吧,記得豁邊 我是躬逢盛會的,但似乎蛋比雞更有味道,所以略去不述。報章上有用"韋小寶"來形容波多裏諾的,我也雙手贊成。反正人一旦接受瞭一個暗示,就會不斷地把 它強化。大曆史框架下的虛構人物也好,滿口謊話也...
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