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On the Edge of Time |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Angelo Costanzo |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,965 Words, 12,114 Characters |
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THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE
Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995
513 pp., $25.00
Once more Umberto Eco, the noted Italian semiotics professor, scholar of the meanings of linguistic signs, and writer of philosophical detective novels, has given us a multiplex work that summons up the serious thought and absorbing pursuits of a past age in human history.
In his well-known and popular book The Name of the Rose, published in Italy in 1980 and translated into English in 1983, Eco surprised a large reading audience with a suspenseful murder mystery set during medieval times. Most of the characters, including the murder suspects, belong to a group of monks. Their work copying ancient religious manuscripts is interspersed with ...
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...nied was something he had known first in Provence, then in Paris, where everyone he encountered somehow destroyed a certitude of his, each proposing a different map of the world, but the various proposals never cohered into a finite design." Thus, Roberto's life becomes an emblem of the lives of all those in the seventeenth century and beyond who were destined to lose the certitudes of faith.
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