Quotes from bookThe Island of the Day Before
Umberto EcoOriginal title L'isola del giorno prima (Italian, 1994)
The Island of the Day Before is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th-century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a backdrop of Baroque-era science, metaphysics, and cosmology.
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before
The Island of the Day Before
