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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (1st Edition) by Umberto Eco Semiotics, Geoffrey Brock (Translator) Paperback, 469 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-15-603043-8 / 0156030438 ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603043-4 / 9780156030434 The premise of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, may strike some readers as laughably unpromising, and others as breathtakingly rich. A sixty-ish Milanese antiquarian bookseller nicknamed Yambo suffers a stroke and loses his memory of everything but the words he has read: poems, sce |