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Original Title:	Baudolino
ISBN:	0156029065 (ISBN13: 9780156029063)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	The Poet, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Baudolino Aulario, Niketas Choniates, Abdullah
Setting:	Constantinople,1204(Turkey)
Literary Awards:	Prix Méditerranée Étranger (2002)

Baudolino Paperback | Pages: 527 pages

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Title	:	Baudolino
Author	:	Umberto Eco
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 527 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2003 by Harcourt (first published November 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Literature

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It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts-a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander-who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa-adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East-a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age, this is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.

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Baudolino is a liar. His life is a picaresque and often amusing novel where History mixes with history. What's more funny for me, it is the relics traffic. At the middle-âge, it was a very profitable buisness. There is a joke : it was said that, with all authentics pieces of the Jesus's cross carefully collected in the churches, we could build an arch for Noé. Style is beautiful, it is magnificiently written. It is felt that Eco take pleasure to write it, Eco let him go. Then, truth or lie? No



Im abandoning this book at page 124 as the thought of another 400 pages doesnt thrill me. If Im not reading a book because Im reluctant to pick it up, its time to stop.On the positive side, the historical background is really interesting. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, also known as Barbarossa (Red Beard), is campaigning in Italy where he was crowned king in 1155. He takes Baudolino under his wing as a teenager and educates him, sending him to Paris to study for several years. We meet

Eco's sophisticated mingling of historical facts with medieval philosophy and theology as well as with a fictional hero, who is in fact an anti-hero, makes you really "dive" into the Middle Ages and this fascinating book. I absolutely adored it and was drawn to it from page one until I was forced to close it (you know, to sleep or study or when I actually finished it).The first thing we learn about Baudolino, the main character of this book, is that he is a liar. He warns us that we must not

Thanks for an amazing review, made me read the book and just finished it!

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In "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco managed the extraordinary feet of balancing his philosophical preoccupations against the needs of story-telling. "Baudolino" is even more ambitious--taking on the nature of story-telling itself--but achieves less. The forum for Eco's musings is an invented character, Baudolino, who travels Zelig-like between the real events around the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th: a couple of Crusades, the fall of Constantinople, the wars of Frederick