by Umberto Eco · Lumen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426412386
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«La isla del día de antes» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Lumen in paperback (422 pages, in Spanish).
In 1643, Roberto de la Grive is shipwrecked on a deserted vessel full of strange animals and machines, off a nearby yet unreachable island. His letters to the «Señora» reveal duels, sieges and loves, while the novel initiates him into the new science, the intrigues of Mazarin and Richelieu, the Thirty Years' War and the mystery of the Fixed Point.
Translation by Helena Lozano Miralles. Palabra en el Tiempo collection, 238. Original Italian: L'isola del giorno prima (1994).
For readers of historical fiction and followers of Umberto Eco, interested in the science, philosophy and politics of the Baroque.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
