The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
 

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

by Umberto Eco

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. His wife Paola fills in the bare essentials of his... (read more)

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cori
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Fabulous book. History, mistery, fantasy and reality, beautiful style. From all Eco's book, this is my favourite.

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strangerintherain
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I was sorely disappointed by this book. It began wonderfully well, I thought, even though it was clearly the sort of book that one would enjoy only if were were reasonably well read. But what began as an intellectual nod-and-wink deteriorated rapidly into a deplorable solipcism, as Eco spent page after page wallowing in long, excruciatingly detailed descriptions of his childhood reading material, at the cost of the novel itself, at the cost of developing what began as an intriguing...

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