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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVIII , n° 2, Dicembre 2000 ( Contributi ) pag. 211-235
THE RETURN OF UMBERTO ECO.
BAUDOLINO HOMO LUDENS: DESCRIBING THE UNKNOWN1
ROCCO CAPOZZI
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
Unlike the fanfare2 that surrounded Umberto Eco's second novel, his most challenging and engaging essay-novel Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; Foucault's Pendulum), or the air of suspense that preceded the publication of his third metafictional novel, L'isola del
giorno dopo (1994; The Island of the Day Before), Baudolino came out - relatively speaking - with very little clamour. The question that readers may be asking is whether this novel will also go out with a "whimper", or whether it will go out with a "bang", selling millions of copies around the world, like The Name of the Rose. After three months Baudolino remains on top of the bestseller list in Italy, but it is much too early to speak of its true or lasting success with critics or the general public. [...]
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