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Article: Pascalian Quixotism in Umberto Eco's L'isola del giorno prima.(Critical Essay)
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- Italica
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- June 22, 2002
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Umberto Eco's third novel, L'isola del giorno prima, has been characterized as a postmodern collage," a "ludic postmodern hypertext," an "intertext in our cultural encyclopedia" (Capozzi 387, 402). As such characterizations indicate, Eco's third novel, as his books Il nome della rosa and Il pendolo di Foucault before, as well as his most recent offering, Baudolino, contains a multitude of references to world literature. Such texts as Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote, the ideas of such thinkers as Pascal and Descartes, play crucial roles in the unfolding of the novel's events; indeed, practically each chapter title derives from a more or less obscure Baroque text (Capozzi ...