Title : Baudolino - Umberto Eco - book
Born in Piedmont in 1932, Umberto Eco holds the chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He taught in Paris at the Collège de France and at the École Normale Supérieure on rue d'Ulm. He is the author of numerous essays, including How to Travel with a Salmon, and three novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before. A truly great book... Baudolino, a whimsical and lying young peasant, conquers Frederick Barbarossa and becomes his adopted son. Baudolino fantasizes, invents, and, as if by magic, everything he imagines becomes history. Thus, among other things, he wrote the mythical letter from Prester John, which promised the West a fabulous kingdom in the Far East ruled by a Christian king, which has inspired many travelers, including Marco Polo. Baudolino grows up. Alexandria was born around 1168, and years later, driven by Baudolino's inventive genius, Frederick set out, using a crusade as a pretext, to return to Prester John the most precious relic of Christianity, which some call the Grasal. He died during this long journey, in mysterious circumstances that only Baudolino could uncover. But his son continued the fabulous expedition to this distant kingdom populated by monsters that haunted the bestiary of the Middle Ages. He experienced extraordinary adventures, including a love story with one of the most singular creatures of Eve's descendants... Told to the Byzantine historian Niceta Coniates, while Constantinople was burning after the sack, the story still held a few surprises. Speaking with Niceta, Baudolino understood things he hadn't yet understood, hence the unexpected ending.
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EAN : 9782246615019
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