Baudolino
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Baudolino
Narrated by:
George Guidall
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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.
“Baudolino, with its richly variegated haul of medieval treasures, remains compulsively readable.”—The New York Times Book Review(P)2002 Recorded Books
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Der Sprecher ist richtig gut!
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Und wiedermal zeigt Eco sein breites Wissen zur antiken und mittelalterlichen Theologie und Geschichte (wie immer bei Eco hilft es, wenn man hier etwas Grundwissen mitbringt, sonst wird es schnell unübersichtlich). Geschickt flicht er die grosse Ideen und Diskussionen der Vergangenheit in seine ganz eigene Historie ein (z.B. zur Trinität oder der philosophischen Bedeutung des Vakuums).
Über die Kraft von Mythen und Geschichten
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