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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional Writings

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Availability:In StockContributor:Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon (Translator)Publish date:2013-09-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780544104686ISBN-10:544104684UPC:9780544104686Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, Essays, ModernBook Topic:Italian, 21st CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC69RX26WG

The final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century--essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession.

"Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco's pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious." --Booklist

The essays in Inventing the Enemy cover a wide range of topics on which Eco wrote and lectured, including a disquisition on the theme that runs through his novel The Prague Cemetery--every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn't have one, must invent it; a discussion of ideas that inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world); an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas's notions about the soul of an unborn child; and censorship, violence, and WikiLeaks.

"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

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780544104686ISBN-10:544104684UPC:9780544104686Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, Essays, ModernBook Topic:Italian, 21st CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC69RX26WG
UMBERTO ECO is the author of The Prague Cemetery, The Name of the Rose, and numerous collections of essays. Formerly a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, he is now president of the Scuola Superiore de Studi Umanistici in Bologna.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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