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Umberto Eco regresa a la Edad Media con una fascinante historia donde se confunden y entremezclan hazanas prodigiosas e inverosimiles, propias de los libros de caballerias, con andanzas y viajes a paises remotos y escenarios desconocidos, un vasto fresco narrativo en el que se conjugan elementos de la novela historica con otros propios del relato de intriga, de aventuras o del genero policiaco.
En una zona del bajo Piamonte donde, anos despues, surgira Alejandria, Baudolino, un pequeno campesino, fantasioso y embustero, conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo. Baudolino fabula e inventa, pero, casi milagrosamente, todo aquello que imagina genera Historia. Asi, entre otras cosas, crea la mitica carta del Preste Juan, que prometia a Occidente un reino fabuloso, en el lejano Oriente, gobernado por un rey cristiano, una carta que ha nutrido la imaginacion de muchos viajeros posteriores, entre los que se cuenta Marco Polo. Baudolino crece, nace Alejandria y, anos mas tarde, empujado por la invencion de Baudolino, Federico emprende un viaje, con el pretexto de hacer una cruzada, para restituir al Preste Juan la mas preciosa reliquia de la cristiandad, el Santo Grial. Federico morira durante el viaje -en circunstancias misteriosas que solo Baudolino nos revelara-, pero su ahijado continuara el viaje hacia aquel reino lejano, entre los monstruos que han habitado los bestiarios del medioevo, vicisitudes llenas de magia y hechizos durante las que vivira un delicado episodio amoroso con la mas singular de las hijas de Eva. Narrada a Nicetas Coniates, historiador bizantino, mientras Constantinopla arde saqueada por los cruzados, la historia nos reserva aun algunas sorpresas, puesto que, hablando con Nicetas, Baudolino comprende cosas que no habia entendido todavia y de las que se deriva un final verdaderamente inesperado.
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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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