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In a fog.

Publication: America
Publication Date: 29-AUG-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In a fog.(The Mysterious fLame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana An Illustrated Novel By Umberto Eco Harcourt. 469p $27 ISBN 0151011400

The best-selling novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco now applies his considerable skill to the matter of identity. Along the way, readers too will ponder who we are and how we know who we are.

In The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel, Eco's protagonist, Yambo (full name: Giambattista Bodoni, after the famed 18th-century Piedmontese typographer), a 60-year-old Milanese antiquarian book dealer, embarks on a quest to rediscover himself. After an "incident" that causes him to lose his "autobiographical memory," he must break through the fog of his amnesia. His doctor tells him, "You haven't lost your semantic memory, you've lost your episodic memory, which is to say the episodes of your life."

But fog, the controlling image of the novel as well as its protagonist's obsession (before his amnesia, Yambo...

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