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Travels in Hyper Reality
Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his …
The Open Work
Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art
Foucault's Pendulum
"An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph."--Anthony Burgess"Foucault's Pendulum is Eco's magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco …
The Name of the Rose
"Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end."--New York Times"Whether you're into Sherlock Holmes, Montaillou, Borges, the …
Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe
Shortly after the hostilities of the Iraq War were declared to have come to an end, the renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas, with the endorsement of Jacques Derrida, published a …
The Search for the Perfect Language
The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, …
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader—his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French …
Misreadings
Parodies of literary and academic writers include a version of "Lolita" with an older woman, an inside account of heavenly bureaucracy, and the story of Columbus' landing as if …