The famous novel “The Name of the Rose” (1980) by the Italian historian, professor of semiotics and aesthetics Umberto Eco about freedom, the novel “Foucault’s Pendulum” (1988), which consolidated the author’s fame about the need to control freedom with common sense, logic, conscience . Both debut masterpieces of Eco with their thriller entertainment are clearly philosophical books. All the more profound philosophical content in the third novel “The Island Before” (1995) . It is a turbulent tale of life and death with a hero reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, only thrown not on a desert island, but on a desert ship. His struggle for survival is poetic, the book is filled with images from great painting, music, literature, it is full of surprises for guessing readers. The unusual and strong characters of the Dartanian time, the sad laughter of the sassy Cyrano and the philosophy of Descartes - all in one story, reminiscent of a new-fangled computer quest