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Format: Paperback
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Author:
Umberto Eco
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780749396282
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EAN: 9780749396282
Published: 15 May 1995
Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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In the age of innumerable populist polymaths, Eco is the exception, a commentator who makes sense of what so often seems senseless. All the more reason to read him
- Time Out
That he can write with equal agility on such subjects as the World Cup, St Thomas Aquinas, and how the wearing of tight blue jeans constricts the interior life as well as the body...in a a style that is both serious and diverting, is an achievement unparalleled in British journalism
- New Statesman
There is enough liveliness here, and enough imaginative suggestiveness, to keep the reader furiously entertained
- Sunday Times
A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our time
- Los Angeles Times
Eco is...a highly entertaining and perceptive 'decoder' of the world
- Times Literary Supplement
Umberto Eco has written works of fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller and he has since published five other novels, along with many brilliant collections of essays.
