Umberto Eco. The Island of the Day Before. Novel

The novel is a play written in a Baroque prose style, replete with quotations, references, allusions, and "word weaving." The novel is set in the 17th century. The hero, a young nobleman named Robert de la Grieve, is shipwrecked and ends up on a deserted ship. There, he reminisces about his childhood and youth, his life in Paris, composes a novel, and dreams of his beloved.