»A whirlwind of an adventure … has everything – myths, marvels, monsters, murders, mysteries …« Financial Times
An extraordinarily epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a word-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino – a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention.
It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Boaudolino svaes 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.
»Hero is The Eco of The Name of the Rose … poised, maschivous and erudite, the fruit of extraordinary knowledge.« Washington Post
»[Eco] has given us, in the book’s central character, a grand and sympathetic figure in the tradition of Candide and Sancho Panza.« Independent on Sunday
»Mixing pages of intellectual discoussion and exhilaration comedy … further reveals Evo’s ractically inexhaustible erudition.« Irish Times
»A richly entertaining novel.« Sunday Times
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Autoren: Umberto Eco
Verlag: Vintage
4. Auflage, 2003 (Erstveröffentlichung 2000, Italien, 2002, Vereinigtes Königreich)