Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code"[1].
Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.[2] He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many essays.
Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts - a talent for learning foreign languages and skill in relling lies. One day, when still a boy, he met a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander - who proves to be the emperor Frederick Barbarossa - adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king who was said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East - a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. As always with Eco, this abundant novel includes dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, pages of extraordinary feeling and poetry, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age. Baudolino is an utterly marvelous tale by the inimitable author of The Name of the Rose.
这是一部神奇的小说,说其神奇并不是形容词,而是名词,因为贯穿全书的约翰王祭司的事迹在中世纪的欧洲广为流传。显然作者也是以此为全书的中心。 波多里诺是个骗子,问题是他是否只是骗骗腓特烈大帝,还是连这个找寻约翰王的故事也是假的,又或者干脆没有波多里诺这个人,一切...
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評分本来想用某高考题目了:行走在消逝中。但考虑到知识产权的原因,我还是别用这题目了,想了很久,决定用“行走在义无反顾的谎言中”为题——用谎言来形容安伯特·艾柯的《波多里诺》这本书,也很贴切。 阅读体验 本书从一开始就作出挑战阅读者的姿态。据说原文的第一部分是用...
評分在读到100页的时候,我被本书那庞杂的内容弄得晕头转向,犹豫再三,跑去豆瓣看了本书的简介(发现关于本书的简介就是“内容非常庞杂”),然后又跳到书的后半段阅读了几页(还是提不起读的兴趣)后,我终于还是选择放弃。 我是个功利主义者,我阅读的时候也是如此。我每阅读一...
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