La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loana
by UMBERTO. ECO, Umberto Eco
Category: Fiction

�Una novela llam�mosle existencialista, y a la vez un juego de la inteligencia� La Vanguardia Yambo es un hombre de sesenta a�os que, tras sufrir un accidente, ha perdido la memoria personal, la m�s ligada a las emociones, y ve su propia vida como si acabara de inaugurarla. Para recuperarse, pasa una temporada en el caser�n de Solara, un pueblo en las colinas piamontesas, donde pas� su infancia. En el desv�n est�n guardados los libros, los c�mics, los discos, los recortes de peri�dico y los carteles de las pel�culas que lo acompa�aron en los primeros a�os de su vida. Yambo inicia entonces una labor casi detectivesca por volver a dibujar el pasado a trav�s de estos objetos, cosas nuevas que le hablan de un mundo que fue el suyo y el de todas las personas que vivieron los momentos m�s importantes del siglo xx. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.