- Taschenbuch: 469 Seiten
- Verlag: Harvest Books; Auflage: Harvest. (5. Juni 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0156030438
- ISBN-13: 978-0156030434
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 13,6 x 3,1 cm
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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 family history, but in order to trigger original memories, Yambo retreats alone to his ancestral home at Solara, a large country house with an improbably intact collection of family papers, books, gramophone records, and photographs. The house is a museum of Yambo's childhood, conventiently empty of people, except of course for one old family servant with a long memory--an apt metaphor for the mind. Yambo submerges himself in these artifacts, rereading almost everything he read as a school boy, blazing a meandering, sometimes misguided, often enchanting trail of words. Flares of recognition do come, like "mysterious flames," but these only signal that Yambo remembers something; they do not return that memory to him. It is like being handed a wrapped package, the contents of which he can only guess.
Within the limitations of Yambo's handicap and quest, Eco creates wondrous variety, wringing surprise and delight from such shamelessly hackneyed plot twists as the discovery of a hidden room. Illustrated with the cartoons, sheet music covers, and book jackets that Yambo uncovers in his search, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana can be read as a love letter to literature, a layered excavation of an Italian boyhood of the 1940s, and a sly meditation on human consciousness. Both playful and reverent, it stands with The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before as among Eco's most successful novels. --Regina Marler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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*Starred Review* Eco, best known for the popular medieval murder-mystery tale The Name of the Rose (1983), continually tests himself and his devoted readers by composing, one after another, deeply cerebral novels teeming with erudition and offering plotlines into which he weaves (almost pours) learned discussions of history, religion, and philosophy. What saves his fiction from aridity and pretension, however, is his compelling storytelling and greatly sympathetic characters. His new novel, demonstrating this combination of traits to the fullest, is about a middle-aged man, an Italian rare-book dealer, who falls into a state of amnesia and must attempt to recover his memory. In other words, he seeks to relearn who "I" is. Yambo--the man's nickname--spends several weeks in his old family home in a rural village, sorting through the accumulated artifacts of recent family history and his own childhood. Surely these comic books and illustrated children's weeklies will prove to be a successful therapy; he desperately hopes they will prompt his memory. The novel's literal level almost sports the pacing of a thriller as Yambo pieces his past together, and on a more metaphysical level, it addresses provocative and never outdated or irrelevant questions about the integrity of one's identity and the irresistible attempt to estimate, while still a part of the community of the living, one's lasting imprint on the global slate. Brad Hooper
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is a side of Umberto Eco that you haven't seen before . . . and I think you will like it . . . especially if you found the references in The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum to be a little too much for you.
The book's premise is much like that of The Arabian Nights, an excuse to introduce an interesting story teller who unravels a fascinating tale that could go on endlessly. In this case, the device is a stroke which causes Yambo to lose his memory of most everything (including his name) except what he has read. Recuperating from his stroke, Yambo receives hints from his wife and best friend about what he's like . . . and discovers that he has a weakness for the ladies. What does that mean about his relationship with his beautiful, young assistant?
Soon frustrated by his memoryless life in Milan, Yambo goes back to his childhood home to see if anything there resurrects any memories. He discovers a house and attic full of the past through which he relives the history of Italians his age. Later, a second stroke restores his memory, and he relives his life as it happened . . . with a little fantasy attached.
It's a witty commentary on the vacuity of the "official" record of our times to see how little of Yambo's life the effects of his life captured.
For those who aren't Italian, the book offers deep and thoughtful look at what it meant to live in Italy under the Fascists. At times, it seemed like the musical comedy version of Gunter Grass's books about Nazi Germany.
The book dazzles most, however, with its many full color illustrations from books, magazines, posters and other cultural icons. These images make the mental pictures conjured up by Eco's words stronger and more lasting. Be sure to check out the section on sources of citations and references that begin on 451. These details will add to your enjoyment of the illustrations.
As I read the book, I wished that I knew a few more languages (especially German and Italian), but most of the references were either easy to appreciate or covered in context by another reference that I understood. Naturally, some Ph.D. student will write a dissertation that firmly fixes all of the references, but that will be too stuffy to read for this breezy, charming effort.
What is life? What is memory? What is reality? These fundamental questions are all beautifully addressed in both sublime (images of perfect love) and the mundane (relieving oneself among the vineyard rows.
It's great fun, and I highly recommend this book to you. It's the high brow's perfect beach read!
The book's premise is much like that of The Arabian Nights, an excuse to introduce an interesting story teller who unravels a fascinating tale that could go on endlessly. In this case, the device is a stroke which causes Yambo to lose his memory of most everything (including his name) except what he has read. Recuperating from his stroke, Yambo receives hints from his wife and best friend about what he's like . . . and discovers that he has a weakness for the ladies. What does that mean about his relationship with his beautiful, young assistant?
Soon frustrated by his memoryless life in Milan, Yambo goes back to his childhood home to see if anything there resurrects any memories. He discovers a house and attic full of the past through which he relives the history of Italians his age. Later, a second stroke restores his memory, and he relives his life as it happened . . . with a little fantasy attached.
It's a witty commentary on the vacuity of the "official" record of our times to see how little of Yambo's life the effects of his life captured.
For those who aren't Italian, the book offers deep and thoughtful look at what it meant to live in Italy under the Fascists. At times, it seemed like the musical comedy version of Gunter Grass's books about Nazi Germany.
The book dazzles most, however, with its many full color illustrations from books, magazines, posters and other cultural icons. These images make the mental pictures conjured up by Eco's words stronger and more lasting. Be sure to check out the section on sources of citations and references that begin on 451. These details will add to your enjoyment of the illustrations.
As I read the book, I wished that I knew a few more languages (especially German and Italian), but most of the references were either easy to appreciate or covered in context by another reference that I understood. Naturally, some Ph.D. student will write a dissertation that firmly fixes all of the references, but that will be too stuffy to read for this breezy, charming effort.
What is life? What is memory? What is reality? These fundamental questions are all beautifully addressed in both sublime (images of perfect love) and the mundane (relieving oneself among the vineyard rows.
It's great fun, and I highly recommend this book to you. It's the high brow's perfect beach read!
Format:Taschenbuch
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is a side of Umberto Eco that you haven't seen before . . . and I think you will like it . . . especially if you found the references in The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum to be a little too much for you.
The book's premise is much like that of The Arabian Nights, an excuse to introduce an interesting story teller who unravels a fascinating tale that could go on endlessly. In this case, the device is a stroke which causes Yambo to lose his memory of most everything (including his name) except what he has read. Recuperating from his stroke, Yambo receives hints from his wife and best friend about what he's like . . . and discovers that he has a weakness for the ladies. What does that mean about his relationship with his beautiful, young assistant?
Soon frustrated by his memoryless life in Milan, Yambo goes back to his childhood home to see if anything there resurrects any memories. He discovers a house and attic full of the past through which he relives the history of Italians his age. Later, a second stroke restores his memory, and he relives his life as it happened . . . with a little fantasy attached.
It's a witty commentary on the vacuity of the "official" record of our times to see how little of Yambo's life the effects of his life captured.
For those who aren't Italian, the book offers deep and thoughtful look at what it meant to live in Italy under the Fascists. At times, it seemed like the musical comedy version of Gunter Grass's books about Nazi Germany.
The book dazzles most, however, with its many full color illustrations from books, magazines, posters and other cultural icons. These images make the mental pictures conjured up by Eco's words stronger and more lasting. Be sure to check out the section on sources of citations and references that begin on 451. These details will add to your enjoyment of the illustrations.
As I read the book, I wished that I knew a few more languages (especially German and Italian), but most of the references were either easy to appreciate or covered in context by another reference that I understood. Naturally, some Ph.D. student will write a dissertation that firmly fixes all of the references, but that will be too stuffy to read for this breezy, charming effort.
What is life? What is memory? What is reality? These fundamental questions are all beautifully addressed in both sublime (images of perfect love) and the mundane (relieving oneself among the vineyard rows.
It's great fun, and I highly recommend this book to you. It's the high brow's perfect beach read!
The book's premise is much like that of The Arabian Nights, an excuse to introduce an interesting story teller who unravels a fascinating tale that could go on endlessly. In this case, the device is a stroke which causes Yambo to lose his memory of most everything (including his name) except what he has read. Recuperating from his stroke, Yambo receives hints from his wife and best friend about what he's like . . . and discovers that he has a weakness for the ladies. What does that mean about his relationship with his beautiful, young assistant?
Soon frustrated by his memoryless life in Milan, Yambo goes back to his childhood home to see if anything there resurrects any memories. He discovers a house and attic full of the past through which he relives the history of Italians his age. Later, a second stroke restores his memory, and he relives his life as it happened . . . with a little fantasy attached.
It's a witty commentary on the vacuity of the "official" record of our times to see how little of Yambo's life the effects of his life captured.
For those who aren't Italian, the book offers deep and thoughtful look at what it meant to live in Italy under the Fascists. At times, it seemed like the musical comedy version of Gunter Grass's books about Nazi Germany.
The book dazzles most, however, with its many full color illustrations from books, magazines, posters and other cultural icons. These images make the mental pictures conjured up by Eco's words stronger and more lasting. Be sure to check out the section on sources of citations and references that begin on 451. These details will add to your enjoyment of the illustrations.
As I read the book, I wished that I knew a few more languages (especially German and Italian), but most of the references were either easy to appreciate or covered in context by another reference that I understood. Naturally, some Ph.D. student will write a dissertation that firmly fixes all of the references, but that will be too stuffy to read for this breezy, charming effort.
What is life? What is memory? What is reality? These fundamental questions are all beautifully addressed in both sublime (images of perfect love) and the mundane (relieving oneself among the vineyard rows.
It's great fun, and I highly recommend this book to you. It's the high brow's perfect beach read!
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Giambatista Bodoni, alias signorino Yambo, is a sixty-year old antiquarian book dealer. He suffers from retrograde amnesia and since there are two kinds of explicit memories, the semantic memory and the episodic memory, Yambo can remember things he read in books or was told - which are generated by the first type of memory - but not the things associated with his direct personal experience - which are stored in the second type of memory. He can't remember his wife Paola, his two daughters Carla and Nicoletta but he can recite countless quotations from the many books he has read.
So Yambo gets slowly acquainted again with his surroundings, his relatives, his shop and his pretty assistant Sibilla. But he can't remember whether he fell in love with her although he hasn't forgotten all the tricks of the trade he needs for shopping at international auctions for rare books. He is shown family albums filled with faces which mean nothing to him so that his entire memory consists of the books he has read. Then Yambo decides to go to their country house in Solara to try to trace back his childhood with the help of his "paper memory" since it is there he can find all his early readings.
Once settled in the attic of the Solara house, Yambo is surrounded by piles of books, magazines, cartoons, photographs and toys. He reflects on such topics as the articles in the "Nuovissimo Melzi", his favourite passages in books like "The Count Of Montecristo", "Huit jours dans un grenier" or the adventures of Buffalo Bill. He remembers the characters of his childhood, Captain Flint, Ciuffettino, Pipino, Sherlock Holmes, the Camicie Nere and the fascist propaganda. He listens to songs and anthems of the Mussolini epoch with the help of his grandfather's record collection.
And one day he stumbles upon a "Tim Tyler's Luck" album featuring a story called "La misteriosa Flamma della Regina Loana" which brings back the memory of his first love for a girl called Lila Saba whose features have haunted him all his life.
The story ends in a flurry or firework of literary protagonists, singers, film stars and cartoon characters descending a large staircase as though Yambo had lost control over his literary memories in a "radiant apocalypse".
An imposing novel where Mr Eco shows what an erudite writer he is regarding matters of literature, politics, history and religion. The question of memory is important in this novel as Yambo realises that one cannot regard relics from one's childhood at the age of sixty in the same manner as one did when one was eight or thirteen. One of the pleasure of reading this book are the numerous illustrations which allow the reader to visualise Yambo’s recollections.
So Yambo gets slowly acquainted again with his surroundings, his relatives, his shop and his pretty assistant Sibilla. But he can't remember whether he fell in love with her although he hasn't forgotten all the tricks of the trade he needs for shopping at international auctions for rare books. He is shown family albums filled with faces which mean nothing to him so that his entire memory consists of the books he has read. Then Yambo decides to go to their country house in Solara to try to trace back his childhood with the help of his "paper memory" since it is there he can find all his early readings.
Once settled in the attic of the Solara house, Yambo is surrounded by piles of books, magazines, cartoons, photographs and toys. He reflects on such topics as the articles in the "Nuovissimo Melzi", his favourite passages in books like "The Count Of Montecristo", "Huit jours dans un grenier" or the adventures of Buffalo Bill. He remembers the characters of his childhood, Captain Flint, Ciuffettino, Pipino, Sherlock Holmes, the Camicie Nere and the fascist propaganda. He listens to songs and anthems of the Mussolini epoch with the help of his grandfather's record collection.
And one day he stumbles upon a "Tim Tyler's Luck" album featuring a story called "La misteriosa Flamma della Regina Loana" which brings back the memory of his first love for a girl called Lila Saba whose features have haunted him all his life.
The story ends in a flurry or firework of literary protagonists, singers, film stars and cartoon characters descending a large staircase as though Yambo had lost control over his literary memories in a "radiant apocalypse".
An imposing novel where Mr Eco shows what an erudite writer he is regarding matters of literature, politics, history and religion. The question of memory is important in this novel as Yambo realises that one cannot regard relics from one's childhood at the age of sixty in the same manner as one did when one was eight or thirteen. One of the pleasure of reading this book are the numerous illustrations which allow the reader to visualise Yambo’s recollections.
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