Travels in Hyperreality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Travels in Hyperreality write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2014-06-24. Travels in Hyperreality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: “In these pages, I try to interpret and to help others interpret some ‘signs.’ These signs are not only words, or images; they can also be forms of social behavior, political acts, artificial landscapes.” From Disneyland to holography and wax museums, Eco explores America’s obsession with artificial reality, suggesting that the craft of forgery has in certain cases exceeded reality itself. He examines Western culture’s enduring fascination with the middle ages, proposing that our most pressing modern concerns began in that time. He delves into an array of topics, from sports to media to what he calls the crisis of reason. Throughout these travels—both physical and mental—Eco displays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver
How to Travel with a Salmon
How to Travel with a Salmon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Travel with a Salmon write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 1995-09-15. How to Travel with a Salmon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly). A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on “a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life” (Publishers Weekly) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind. From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilization—not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotel—this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides “an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona.” —Kirkus Reviews Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Serendipities
Serendipities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serendipities write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 1999. Serendipities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. See:
Inventing the Enemy
Inventing the Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Enemy write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Inventing the Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes” (Booklist). In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world. His topics range from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship, violence and WikiLeaks. Here are essays full of passion, curiosity, and probing intellect 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
Misreadings
Misreadings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Misreadings write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 1993. Misreadings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde in art in criticism.
