The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana I -- CRITICAL RESPONSE and RESOURCES

Not sure if Mysterious Flame is worth effort?  Check out some bits and pieces about the book and its author at the following links:

• TIME's, "A Resounding Eco"
• American University Radio, Eco discusses the book (streaming audio)
• Harcourt interviews Eco
• Entertainment Weekly, "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" (very brief)
• The Christian Science Monitor, "Playing in the Attic of Italy under Il Duce"
• The New York Times, "The Book of Forgetting"

Some of these reviews I collected via literarywiki.org's list.  They also have a list of annotations for the book, which I don't intend to follow, at least not closely.

I have also found the entire book online.  You can find it here.

Yambo, protagonist and amnesiac,
and by request of his doctor, draws
his impression of Napoleon.