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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional Writings Tapa blanda - 2013
de Umberto Eco
A collection of timely essays written over the last ten years by Umberto Eco, internationally acclaimed and best-selling author.
Resumen
Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the past ten years: from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel The Prague Cemetery — every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn’t have one, must invent it — to a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world); from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship and violence and WikiLeaks.
These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession by one of the world’s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.
“True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human.” — Buffalo News
"Thought provoking . . . nuanced . . . the collection amply shows off Eco's sophisticated, agile mind." — Publishers Weekly
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Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the past ten years: from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel The Prague Cemetery every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn t have one, must invent it to a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels, taking us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world; from indignant reviews of James Joyce s Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship and violence and WikiLeaks.
These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession by one of the world s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.
True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human. Buffalo News
"Thought provoking . . . nuanced . . . the collection amply shows off Eco's sophisticated, agile mind." Publishers Weekly
[AU PHOTO] UMBERTO ECO is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the best-selling novels The Prague Cemetery, The Name of the Rose, and Foucault s Pendulum and many collections of essays. A semiotician, philosopher, medievalist, and for many years a professor at the University of Bologna, Eco is now president of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici there. He lives in Milan.
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- Título Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional Writings
- Autor Umberto Eco
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición F First Paperbac
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harpervia, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2013-09-24
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780544104686 / 0544104684
- Peso 0.35 libras (0.16 kg)
- Dimensiones 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 pulgadas (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Dewey Decimal Code 854.914
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