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More copies of this ISBN:On Literatureby Umberto Eco
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers. Book News Annotation:Eco, freely admitting that he is responding to the themes of the
symposium or conference in question, writes about symbolism, style,
and function in literature, intertextual irony, three generations of
anti-Americanism, paradox in Wilde, obsession in Joyce, and the
political implications of the behavior of Ringo in 1939's Stagecoach.
One comes to understand his mind is something like the library-maze
in The Name of the Rose before blazes consumed it. He reveals his
methods of stocking that library by meticulously researching and
inventing the worlds about which he writes. His only deadline (and
superstition about his writing) is that he must complete the
manuscript by 5 January, his birthday. Any year will do.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word.
About the AuthorUmberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of Baudolino, The Name of the Rose, and numerous novels and essays. He lives in Milan. Table of ContentsContents Introduction On Some Functions of Literature A Reading of the Paradiso On the Style of The Communist Manifesto The Mists of the Valois Wilde: Paradox and Aphorism A Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor Between La Mancha and Babel Borges and My Anxiety of Influence On Camporesi: Blood, Body, Life On Symbolism On Style Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie The Flaws in the Form Intertextual Irony and Levels of Reading The Poetics and Us The American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations The Power of Falsehood How I Write What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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