The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel
Eco, Umberto (1932-2016)
The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock - 1st ed. - Orlando, FL : Harcourt , 2005 - 469 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love.
9780151011407
2004029105
Memory disorders----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PQ4865.C6 / M5713 2005
FIC ECO
The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock - 1st ed. - Orlando, FL : Harcourt , 2005 - 469 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love.
9780151011407
2004029105
Memory disorders----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PQ4865.C6 / M5713 2005
FIC ECO
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