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En el verano de 1643 y en los mares del Sur, un joven piamontés, Roberto de la Grive, arriba como náufrago a una nave desierta. La nave está llena de animales desconocidos y de extrañas máquinas y artilugios, y ante ella, próxima e inalcanzable (no sólo, descubriremos después, en el espacio, sino también en el tiempo) una isla de ensueño. Roberto escribe cartas a la 'Señora'; a través de las cuales se adivina poco a poco su pasado: duelos, asedios, lances amorosos, alambicadas disputas de salón. Se trata, de hecho, de la lenta y traumática iniciación al mundo de la nueva ciencia, las razones de estado, las redes de espionaje de Mazarino y Richelieu, la guerra de los treinta años, en suma, a un cosmos en el que la tierra ha dejado de ser para muchos el centro del universo. En este 'Mar de la Inocencia' nada es inocente, y Roberto lo sabe desde el principio, porque ha llegado a estas Antípodas para resolver -sin personalmente desearlo- el misterio por el cual forcejean las nuevas potencias de la época: el secreto del Punto Fijo.
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Could not finish. :(
Usually I love Eco, but I didn't like the flow of this book, even though the premise was intriguing.
This book fits the pattern I've come to expect in Umberto Eco's writing: an excellent story lost in a haze of random thoughts, obscure references, and all together too many words. I would love it if someone took this book's concept and turned it into the brilliant book that it deserves to be.
Warning for animal abuse!
Umberto did it again... :-)
I wouldn't mark this as magical realism, because the only magic in it is what is in reality, the beauty of the world and universe and everything.
It is a story of a young man who got shipwrecked to rescue himself on another ship without a crew but filled with natural samples, like plants and birds. Umberto toys with the idea of that on the 180th latitude, an island just 10 meters away, is still in yesterday, while we are already in tomorrow.
It is a fascinating story filled with ideas, but also an adventure story reminding me of Alexandre Dumas' stories, with spies and Richelieu.
il mio secondo libro di Eco dopo “il nome della rosa” letto al liceo, il romanzo non è male, quello che però ti “uccide” è il modo in cui è scritto, la ricercatezza delle parole, le frasi mai banali o messe li solo per fare “numero”... insomma, dopo Eco anche il modo in cui un libro è scritto è diventato per me un parametro chiave per valutare un romanzo.
un signor scrittore!