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The premise of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, may strike some readers as laughably unpromising, and others as breathtakingly rich. A sixty-ish Milanese antiquarian bookseller nicknamed Yambo suffers a stroke and loses his memory of everything but the words he has read: poems, scenes from novels, miscellaneous quotations. His wife Paola fills in the bare essentials of his family history, but in order to trigger original memories, Yambo retreats alone to his ancestral home at Solara, a large country house with an improbably intact collection of family papers, books, gramophone records, and photographs. The house is a museum of Yambo's childhood, conventiently empty of people, except of course for one old family servant with a long memory--an apt metaphor for the mind. Yambo submerges himself in these artifacts, rereading almost everything he read as a school boy, blazing a meandering, sometimes misguided, often enchanting trail of words. Flares of recognition do come, like "mysterious flames," but these only signal that Yambo remembers something; they do not return that memory to him. It is like being handed a wrapped package, the contents of which he can only guess.
Within the limitations of Yambo's handicap and quest, Eco creates wondrous variety, wringing surprise and delight from such shamelessly hackneyed plot twists as the discovery of a hidden room. Illustrated with the cartoons, sheet music covers, and book jackets that Yambo uncovers in his search, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana can be read as a love letter to literature, a layered excavation of an Italian boyhood of the 1940s, and a sly meditation on human consciousness. Both playful and reverent, it stands with The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before as among Eco's most successful novels. --Regina Marler --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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Guidall gives a polished, Masterpiece Theatre–worthy sheen to Eco's odd, funny tale of Yambo, a man who discovers that while remembering the plots and details of all the books and films he's ever read or seen, he has no recollection of his own life or his name. His sonorous tones are soothing, lending Eco's prose a certain hushed aura, but there is something strangely off about the marriage of the Italian author's intellectual mystery story and Guidall's rolling British cadences. It is as if Guidall's Oxbridge enunciation were thought necessary to gussy up Eco's novel, something it is distinctly not in need of. Overemoting, Guidall turns Yambo into a ham actor rather than a slightly comic figure befuddled by a world full of mysterious and alluring signs. Guidall does do a solid job capturing the quicksilver changes in emotional temperature of the volatile protagonist, who is unable to comprehend the confusing new world he finds himself in. Even in this, though, Guidall is more like an actor professing befuddlement than someone actually finding himself disoriented by his mind's empty spaces.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition CD .
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition CD .
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Giambatista Bodoni, alias signorino Yambo, is a sixty-year old antiquarian book dealer. He suffers from retrograde amnesia and since there are two kinds of explicit memories, the semantic memory and the episodic memory, Yambo can remember things he read in books or was told - which are generated by the first type of memory - but not the things associated with his direct personal experience - which are stored in the second type of memory. He can't remember his wife Paola, his two daughters Carla and Nicoletta but he can recite countless quotations from the many books he has read.
So Yambo gets slowly acquainted again with his surroundings, his relatives, his shop and his pretty assistant Sibilla. But he can't remember whether he fell in love with her although he hasn't forgotten all the tricks of the trade he needs for shopping at international auctions for rare books. He is shown family albums filled with faces which mean nothing to him so that his entire memory consists of the books he has read. Then Yambo decides to go to their country house in Solara to try to trace back his childhood with the help of his "paper memory" since it is there he can find all his early readings.
Once settled in the attic of the Solara house, Yambo is surrounded by piles of books, magazines, cartoons, photographs and toys. He reflects on such topics as the articles in the "Nuovissimo Melzi", his favourite passages in books like "The Count Of Montecristo", "Huit jours dans un grenier" or the adventures of Buffalo Bill. He remembers the characters of his childhood, Captain Flint, Ciuffettino, Pipino, Sherlock Holmes, the Camicie Nere and the fascist propaganda. He listens to songs and anthems of the Mussolini epoch with the help of his grandfather's record collection.
And one day he stumbles upon a "Tim Tyler's Luck" album featuring a story called "La misteriosa Flamma della Regina Loana" which brings back the memory of his first love for a girl called Lila Saba whose features have haunted him all his life.
The imposing novel where Mr Eco shows what an erudite writer he is regarding matters of literature, politics, history and religion. The question of memory is important in this novel as Yambo realises that one cannot regard relics from one's childhood at the age of sixty in the same manner as one did when one was eight or thirteen. One of the pleasure of reading this book are the numerous illustrations which allow the reader to visualise Yambo's recollections.
So Yambo gets slowly acquainted again with his surroundings, his relatives, his shop and his pretty assistant Sibilla. But he can't remember whether he fell in love with her although he hasn't forgotten all the tricks of the trade he needs for shopping at international auctions for rare books. He is shown family albums filled with faces which mean nothing to him so that his entire memory consists of the books he has read. Then Yambo decides to go to their country house in Solara to try to trace back his childhood with the help of his "paper memory" since it is there he can find all his early readings.
Once settled in the attic of the Solara house, Yambo is surrounded by piles of books, magazines, cartoons, photographs and toys. He reflects on such topics as the articles in the "Nuovissimo Melzi", his favourite passages in books like "The Count Of Montecristo", "Huit jours dans un grenier" or the adventures of Buffalo Bill. He remembers the characters of his childhood, Captain Flint, Ciuffettino, Pipino, Sherlock Holmes, the Camicie Nere and the fascist propaganda. He listens to songs and anthems of the Mussolini epoch with the help of his grandfather's record collection.
And one day he stumbles upon a "Tim Tyler's Luck" album featuring a story called "La misteriosa Flamma della Regina Loana" which brings back the memory of his first love for a girl called Lila Saba whose features have haunted him all his life.
The imposing novel where Mr Eco shows what an erudite writer he is regarding matters of literature, politics, history and religion. The question of memory is important in this novel as Yambo realises that one cannot regard relics from one's childhood at the age of sixty in the same manner as one did when one was eight or thirteen. One of the pleasure of reading this book are the numerous illustrations which allow the reader to visualise Yambo's recollections.
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