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 The Island of the Day Before (Italian title: L'isola del giorno prima ) is a 1995 novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco that tells the life story of a young man, Roberto della Griva, as he is shipwrecked aboard a fully provisioned but...
 
| Name: |
Umberto Eco | | Birth Date: |
January 5, 1932 | | Place of Birth: |
Alessandria, Italy | | Nationality: |
Italian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
scholar, professor, novelist |
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 Biography of Umberto Eco
1362 words, approx. 4.5 pages
Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and politics. His academic work in semiotics, the science of... summary from source:
 Biography of Umberto Eco
6137 words, approx. 20.5 pages
 The long list of Umberto Eco's books and publications contains only three novels, Il nome della rosa (1980; translated as The Name of the Rose, 1983), Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; translated as Foucault's Pendulum, 1989), and L'isola del giorno prima (1... summary from source:
Biography of Umberto Eco
3354 words, approx. 11.2 pages
As a semiotician, novelist, medieval scholar, journalist, and parodist, Umberto Eco has produced an amazingly diverse and influential body of work since the 1950s, and he is certainly one of the most prominent public intellectuals in the world. Yet, in E...
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Harcourt (US) Publication date 1995 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 513 pp ISBN ISBN 0-436-20270-0 (UK)0151001510 (US) Preceded by Foucault's Pendulum Followed by Baudolino The Island of the Day Before (L'isola del...
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 World Literature Today The Island of the Day Before. (book reviews)
09/22/1996: 791 words, approx. 3 pages To the general public the name of Umberto Eco is still synonymous with The Name of the Rose (1980; see WLT 55:.3, p. 449) and, to a lesser extent, with Foucault's Pendulum (1988; see WLT 64:1, p. 87). The unprecedented international success story... summary from source:
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 Critical Review by Rosemary Dinnage
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In the following excerpt, Dinnage remarks upon the multiple plots and allusions of The Island of the Day Before in relation to the seventeenth-century search for what today is known as the international dateline.
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