- Memory disorders, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Antiquarian booksellers
Giambattista Bodoni, bouquiniste de 60 ans, perd la mémoire suite à une attaque. Il ne reconnaît pas sa femme ni ses enfants mais il se souvient de ce qui a trait à la vie extérieure : les évènements oubliés, les lectures. Sur les conseils de sa femme, il retourne dans leur maison de campagne où sont conservés les objets de son enfance. Il revit ainsi sa jeunesse dans l'Italie des années 1930.
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Nostalgic, grave, contemplative and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Umberto Eco
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 484
- Publisher
- Le Grand livre du mois, Lumen Books/Sites Books, Sudamericana
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- cat, Italian, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780151011407
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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books
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