The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Author: Umberto Eco
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call ‘semantic’ (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his ‘autobiographical’ memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn’t tecognize his wife or his daughters, doesn’t remember anything about….Read More
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