Baudolino
by:
Şemsa Gezgin (author)
Umberto Eco (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789051110097
Publish date: October 2009
Publisher: Doğan Kitap
Pages no: 544
Edition language: Turkish
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Italian Literature,
Fiction,
Historical
This is a fairly uproarious comic novel about the fine line between truth and fiction, that also functions as a critique of medieval logic and reasoning and as a celebration/satire of the power of myth (and faith, and belief). But I felt a nagging sense of deja vu the entire time I was reading it. B...
Rewelacyjna powieść Umberto Eco! W „Baudolino” przedstawia potęgę słowa pisanego. Tytułowy bohater to chłopski syn, który dzięki sprzyjającemu losowi znajduje się blisko otoczenia Fryderyka Barbarossy. Przez fakt, że jest skrybą i pisze kronikę, a w zasadzie opowiada swoje przeżycia w trakcie łupien...
Die fantastische Lebensgeschichte des Baudolino erzählt Umberto Eco - bzw. er lässt sie erzählen - aus zwei Perspektiven. Im "Hier und Jetzt" des vierten Kreuzzugs im zerstörten Konstantinopel und als unterhaltsamer Rückblick durch Baudolino selbst, gerichtet an Niketas Choniates, dem er zuvor das L...
I wish that I had read this novel before I had visited Istanbul. I most certainly would have visited the remnants of the hippodrome (at the Sultan Ahmet Square), the labyrinthine cisterns with its Medusas’ heads and the other places mentioned in the novel. At least there is a lot left to see for my ...
By far Eco's weakest novel to date.
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