Facts about Umberto Eco's Novels
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Eco's 2004 novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana explores a protagonist suffering from amnesia who rediscovers identity through 1930s Italian popular culture and visual imagery across 460 pages.
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Eco's 1994 novel The Prague Cemetery features an unreliable narrator writing his memoirs across 640 pages while claiming authorship of the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Eco's 1994 novel Hyperion employs a narrative structure featuring multiple unreliable narrators across nested stories exploring semiotics and textual interpretation.
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Eco's 1994 novel The Island of the Day Before employs seventeen different narrative frames and unreliable narrators to explore the nature of textuality and interpretation.
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Eco's 1995 novel Serendipities collects six lectures exploring how historical accidents and chance discoveries shaped Western culture and intellectual history.
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Eco's 1994 novel Misreadings collects 40 short fictional reviews of nonexistent books, blending literary criticism with imaginative bibliography.
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In The Island of the Day Before, Eco's 1994 novel, the protagonist spends most of the narrative confined to a single ship, exploring themes of isolation and forbidden knowledge through baroque language and philosophical digression.
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Baudolino, Eco's 2000 novel, spans over 600 pages and incorporates medieval history, Byzantine politics, and the Fourth Crusade as central narrative elements.
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Foucault's Pendulum, Eco's 1988 novel, weaves together references to over 300 historical figures and secret societies across its 641 pages.
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The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco's 1980 debut novel, contains approximately 500 pages and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.