Baudolino

Αν και λίγο κουραστικός ο Eco, αποδεικνύει ότι είναι φοβερός γνώστης τη μεσαιωνικής ιστορίας, αλλά και ταλαντούχος μυθοπλάστης.

Baudolino, Umberto EcoBaudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.In the year of 1204, Baudolino of Alessandria enters Constantinople, unaware of the Fourth Crusade that has thrown the city into chaos. In the confusion, he meets Niketas Choniates and saves his life. Niketas is amazed by his language genius, speaking many languages he has never heard, and on the question: if he is not part of [...]

"in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."What would an Umberto Eco novel be without a pile of theological debate, historical references bordering on the obscure, and convoluted story-telling that makes your head spin? What would an Eco novel be without causing you to ask yourself "what the heck was that?" after you finish reading it? Or heaps of tongue-in-cheek phrases that make you wonder if he's being serious or mocking? e answer is, not much of an Um [...]

This is a novel that I love to return to.Baudolino, a self declared liar tells the story of his life to a Byzantine court official and historian who he has rescued from the sack of Constantinople during the fourth crusade.Baudolino's story takes in the life and career of his imperial majesty the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, study at the university of Paris, the third crusade up to the death of the emperor, the acquisition of the mummified bodies of the three kings for Cologne Cathedral, the dis [...]

Ο Εκο ηταν μεγάλος παραμυθάς .

هذا آخر عمل لإيكو مترجم عندي ، وكالعادة الإرهاق والتعمق في التفاصيل والحرص عليها سمة أساسية في كتابات إيكو ، ذلك الإرهاق الذي يتطلب منك تركيز مكثف لكي لا تضيع منك تفصيل ما أو معلومة ما ، فيحدث خلل في بناء القراءة الممتعة الذي تبنيه.المهم : نحن أمام عمل لإيكو يحمل إسم شخصيته ال� [...]

Okuduğum en güzel romanlardan birisi!Çağımızın en iyi romancılarından birisi kabul edilen Umberto Eco’nun bu şahane romanı, bir sahtekarın hikayesi: Baudolino.İtalya’nın kuzeyinde doğan, ve söylediği yalanlarla yarattığı dünyanın içinde tamamen kaybolan Baudolino ile birlikte haçlı seferinden Alamut’a, Akhunlardan Kuzey Avrupa’ya o dönemin tüm dünyasını geziyoruz adeta.Baudolino, fakir bir köyde fakir bir ailenin çocuğu olarak büyür. Ailesi o kadar sefi [...]

Για πολύ καιρό δίσταζα να διαβάσω αυτό το βιβλίο αφού είχα ακούσει απο πολλούς οτι είναι βαρετό και κουραστικό.Φανταστείτε την έκπληξή μου όταν ρίχνοντας μια ματιά στις πρώτες σελίδες βρέθηκα απέναντι απο έναν ήρωα γοητευτικό που με πήρε απο το χέρι και με "ανάγκασε" να τον [...]

Baudolino is a difficult book to summarise, because the more you read, the more you realise that the plot is merely incidental and the book is really about something else entirely. In fact, if you were to read this book for the plot you would be very confused very quickly. The story is a first person account by the eponymous Baudolino of his life, as told to Niketas whom he rescues from the sack of Constantinople. It chronicles his adventures from 1155 when he was adopted in all but name by Empe [...]

Umberto Eco, who previously gave us The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, gives us a fantasy historical novel about the fictional right-hand man to Frederick the First (1122-1190), also known as Barbarossa, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Our hero, Baudolino, is a kind of Henry Kissinger sent off by the emperor to make peace, conduct negotiations and threaten war. Baudolino is an inveterate liar and stretcher of the truth, so when he undertakes a multi-year mission to find the mythic [...]

Umberto Eco’s novels are the Harvard doctorate to Dan Brown’s middle school nonsense. Whereas Brown fascinates the masses with half-truth historical art and religion, Eco is a stunning scholar, simply overwhelming the sophisticated reader, pleasurably, with ancient languages (“Ave, evcharisto, salam” (376)) and (sometimes arcane) belief systems. His characters may not be as deep or personable as less ambitious novels (“I decided that if this was my fate, it was useless for me to try to [...]

Još jedan sjajan roman Umberta Eka!Srednjovekovna istorija, prepliće se sa mitom i fantazijom.U romanu ima svega:istorijskih događaja(Krstaški ratovi,opsada Konstantinopolja,vladavina Fridriha I Barbarose), potrage za Svetim gralom i carstvom Prezvitera Jovana,mitskih bića (skijapodi,satiri,hipatije),filozofije.Na ovo uzbudljivo putovanje vodi nas Baudolino,posinak Fridriha Barbarose,koji je vešt u pripovedanju , ali i u izmisljanju priča

So many stories are themselves about stories and storytelling. There is something about this basic act of creation and communication that captivates the human mind and spirit. Storytelling necessarily blurs the line between truth and falsehood; there is no way to relate any story, even history, with perfect truth, for we are all fallible and subjective beings. And history—that patchwork quilt of stories that make the grandest narrative of them all—is probably more lies than truth. We are ble [...]

“Now, one of our brothers, Eldad of the tribe of Dan, more than a hundred years ago, arrived at Qayrawan, in Africa, where a community of the Chosen People exists, saying that he came from the kingdom of the ten lost tribes, a land blessed by heaven, where life is peaceful, never troubled by any crime, where truly the streams flow with milk and honey. This land has remained separated from every other country because it is defended by the river Sambatyon, which is as wide as the shot of the mig [...]

There were three reasons why I read this book. One, Eco, I'd heard so much talk about his work (fiction and non-). Two, the setting, the Middle Ages, a historical period that is a bit of a gap for me. Three, an unreliable narrator, Usual Suspects is one of my favorite movies for this reason. Fictional stories are all lies, but in that world, you expect truth, but when you find out the fiction you are experiencing is also a fiction, well that is just delicious. I enjoyed Baudolino's world where l [...]

تا صفحه ي ٦٠ فكر ميكنيد كتاب يك رمان خيلي عادي است.تا اينجا با شخصيت بائودولينو آشنا مي شويد.از ٦٠ تا ٢٠٠ شالوده ي اصلي داستان شكل مي گيرد و كم كم به بائودولينو علاقمند مي شويد.اما از صفحه ي ٢٠٠ كه گذر كنيد متوجه مي شويد با رماني سطحي و پيش پا افتاده طرف نيستيد و اين وضعيت تا آخري� [...]

در سال هزار و دویست و چهار میلادی، بائودولینو داستان زندگی اش را برای استاد نیکتاس روایت میکند تا او بنویسد و به آیندگان تحویل دهد. کتاب از دو بخش تشکیل شده، بخش اول که بیشتر شرح فتوحات و کشورگشائیهای شاه فردریک، پدرخوانده ی بائودولینو، است و بخش دوم که شرح سفربائودولینو و دوس [...]

Girişten bir süre sonra sürükleyiciliğini ve amacını kaybetmişti ama son 150-200 sayfada tekrar sürükleyici ve ilgi çekici olmayı başardı benim açımdan. Özellikle artık iyice fantastik kurgu kısmına girildiği zaman. Dünyaya inancımı kaybettiğim zaman ilgili sayfalara dönüp Hipatia'nın bilgelikle ilgili konuşmalarını okuyabilirim. O kısım çok başarılıydı.

Baudolino once again shows Eco’s amazing ability to turn what may be a boring pseudo-historical narrative into something hilarious, occasionally cheeky, and always insightful.If Baudolino is to be believed, he was single-handedly responsible for the canonization of Charlemagne, was responsible for the propagation of the myth of Prester John, and indirectly fueled Frederick’s ill-fated Third Crusade. The story that Umberto Eco created fits so perfectly behind history as we know it that it’s [...]

In that curiously relaxing time between Christmas and New Year's, when there's not much to do except sit around and read (if you're lucky enough to work somewhere that shuts down between the two), I picked up Baudolino. It was one of the pile of books I plowed my way through while visiting my in-laws. I hadn't had that much concentrated reading time in quite a while. Gosh, it was nice!Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in policy and enforcement. You can read why [...]

Eco's sophisticated mingling of historical facts with medieval philosophy and theology as well as with a fictional hero, who is really an anti-hero, makes you really "dive" into the Middle Ages. The first thing we learn about Baudolino is that he is a liar. He warns us that we must not believe him. And yet, he narrates a story so charming, so exciting and so obviously untrue that leaves you with no other choice than believing anything he says. There is not a single Umberto Eco novel that I haven [...]

resuming after a long break

"Sometimes, when what we've sought is almost within our grasp, we make our faith a lie so that we don't have to give up our quest by achieving its goal."When I finished Thomas Pynchon's V. last month, the sentence above was my entire review of it because I felt that was the most important thing I took away from that reading of the book. As I read V. I sensed it possessed a similarity of "aura" with Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Toward the end of Baudolino I received V.'s message again from [...]

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 [...]

للاسف لا اشعر بالتشويق والحماس وجمال التفاصيل كما برواية "اسم الوردة" .هل الترجمة هي السبب ؟ ام ال "مود" الحالي , ام الرواية نفسها ؟لا ادري , ولكنني اعلم شيئا واحدا , انني لم استسيغ الرواية SS

I'm a total sucker for medieval stories, which made up for the fact that I know sweet eff-all about the various finer points of Christian theology that so much of the book revolves around. I suspect the novel might be rather boring if you're into neither knights nor Jesus.Predictably, the language is complex and interesting (a testament to the translator as well), and carries the novel through some of the slow passages. There's also a convenient point at which the story breaks pretty cleanly fro [...]

Great imaginative novel, its only 'weakness' being its sprawling structure. Contained within the novel are mythical creatures, legends, a genuine locked-room murder mystery, and lots of Gnostic memes. All of this told through the self-admitted lying narrator, perhaps one of the better 'unreliable narrators' I've ever read. The meditations on the nature of myth and legend and the innate need for stories of power were great. Perhaps my favorite moment was two mythical creatures debating the Holy T [...]

اشعر بأني قضيت دهراً وأنا اقرا هذه الروايه !ليس لأنها اقل متعه وليس انها ممله بل لأن هناك شيء عميق ومدهش وملحمي يقبع وسط 600 صفحه .شخصية باودلينو الغريبه ورحلة البحث الطويله التي استغرقت عمراً كاملاً .ليس لدي الكثير لأكتبه عنها لأنها تحتاج من قارئها ان يكتشفها هو بنفسه .

Io me lo sentivo che Eco ed io c'azzeccavamo poco l'uno con l'altra.Lo guardavo sempre con un misto di riluttanza e allo stesso tempo curiosità. Sarà perché da piccola aprii per caso L'isola del giorno prima e richiusi il libro dopo aver letto le prime pagine, sentendomi abbastanza allucinata e confusa. A quei tempi per me era semplicemente ridondante e quasi geroglifico (per una che era abituata a Geronimo Stilton).Di fatto da quel momento in poi si stampò in me l'associazione di Eco come u [...]

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 Barbaross [...]