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Transcript: Author Discusses `The Island of the Day Before'
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- December 17, 1995
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Umberto Eco gained fame with his intellectually puzzling novel, "The
Name of the Rose" and in his latest work uses a 17th century quest
for longitude as a metaphor for a journey to man's moral center.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: And now to a master of literary puzzles. Umberto
Eco's [sp] books feature heroes who struggle to solve perplexing riddles
by navigating intellectual mazes of signs and clues. His earlier
novels, The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum [sp] dealt with
the mysteries of the Middle Ages. The Italian author's new novel
moves into the 17th century. It's called The Island of the Day Before
and Tom Vitale has more.
TOM ...