On Literature
Author(s): Umberto Eco
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre of nineteenth- and early tweniteth century literature: one on the French writer Nerval's masterpiece, Sylvie (a mojor influence on Eco and a novella that he translated into Itallian), one on Oscar Wilde's love of paradox, and one on Joyce's views on language. The last three pieces deal with the road that leads from Cervantes via Swift to Borges' Library of Babel, then an essay on Eco's own anxiety about Borges' influence on him, and the volume ends with an article on the enigmatic Italian critic and anthropologist Piero Campesori. On Literature is a provoctive and entertaining collection of sprightly essays on the key texts that have shaped Eco the novelist and chritic. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in how new light is shed on old masters by a great contemporary mind.
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Umberto Eco is the author of four bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and, most recently, Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.
General Fields
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- : vinteb
- : vinteb
- : 0.584
- : 06 January 2005
- : 190mm X 127mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Umberto Eco
- : Hardback
- : New edition
- : 854.914
- : 128