Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana [PDF]

Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana [PDF] Format: PDF File Size: 21.9 MB Language: English Published By HARCOURT, INC., 2004 481 pages http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10503.The_Mysterious_Flame_of_Queen_Loana When aging Italian book-dealer Yambo, hero of this engaging if somewhat bloodless novel of ideas, regains consciousness after a mysterious coma, he suffers a peculiar form of amnesia. His "public" memory of languages, everyday routines, history and literature remains intact, but his autobiographical memory of personal experiences—of his family, lovers, childhood, even his name—is gone. He can spout literary and cultural allusions on any topic, citing everything from Moby-Dick to Star Trek, but complains, "I don't have feelings, I only have memorable sayings." To recover his past, he repairs to his boyhood home to peruse a cache of memorabilia amassed in his youth during Mussolini's reign and WWII, consisting of comic books, schoolbooks, Fascist propaganda, popular music, romantic novels and his own poetry about an unattainable high school beauty. The setup allows semiotician and novelist Eco (The Name of the Rose, etc.) to indulge his passion for pulp materials by reproducing such objects as movie posters, song lyrics and a graphic novella rendering the Book of Revelation as a Flash Gordon melodrama, with intriguing asides on cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind thrown in. The result has a somewhat academic feel, but it's an absorbing exploration of how that most fundamental master-narrative, our memory, is pieced together from a bricolage of pop culture. - Publishers Weekly _____________________________________CONTENTS_____________________________________ PART ONE: THE INCIDENT 1. The Cruelest Month 3 2. The Murmur of Mulberry Leaves 28 3. Someone May Pluck Your Flower 45 4. Alone through City Streets I Go 64 PART TWO: PAPER MEMORY 5. Clarabelle's Treasure 81 6. II Nuovissimo Melzi 90 7. Eight Days in an Attic 117 8. When the Radio 159 9. But Pippo Doesn't Know 178 10. The Alchemist's Tower 212 11. Up There at Capocabana 227 12. Blue Skies Are on the Way 257 13. The Pallid Little Maiden 272 14. The Hotel of the Three Roses 295 PART THREE: OI NOZTOI 15. You're Back at Last, Friend Mist! 301 16. The Wind Is Whistling 325 17. The Provident Young Man 379 18. Lovely Thou Art as the Sun 406 SOURCES OF CITATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 451

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