Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/09/2013
ISBN: 9780099553946
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £10.99
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.
In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco’s perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of the art he discusses. In these wide-ranging pieces he explores the roots of our civilization, changing ideas of beauty, our obsession with conspiracies and the emblematic heroes of the great narrative, amongst other fascinating topics.
Umberto Eco was one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century, as well as being a critically acclaimed and bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/09/2013
ISBN: 9780099553946
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 210g
RRP: £10.99
Whether discussing the relationship between our knowledge and God, abortion, stem cells, embryos, the right to life, or reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, this collection gleams with clarity, depth and wisdom
For the sheer depth and clarity of his learning and wisdom, Eco has no living rival
[A] philosophical football match that encompasses myth, literature and history... Discursive, grandiose, witty stuff from the quintessential savvy professor
Eco's greatest virtue might be said to lie in his ability to clarify the exact nature of our present perplexities...lucid, logical and always firmly on the side of civilisation
Eco's writing has a unique ability to dance on the page and to resonate in the mind