[This] dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays
Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and
narrative theory into intellectual entertainment.--John O'Reilly
"Independent "
Reading [these chapters] is indeed like wandering in the
woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, "How to Be
a Good Reader," for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has
you eating out of his hand by the end of them.--Susan Salter
Reynolds "Los Angeles Times Book Review "
The dim boundary between the imaginary and the real is Eco's home
terrain...He is a foxy gamesman, using enchanted woods as a
flexible image for narrative texts, and mustering a playful array
of allusions from "The Three Musketeers" to the "Rocky Horror
Picture Show".--Robert Taylor "Boston Globe "
�This� dashing and stylish series of six lectures...displays
Umberto Eco's enviable ability to transform arid semiotics and
narrative theory into intellectual entertainment. -- John O'Reilly
"Independent"
Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous...The literary examples
Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His
text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of
surprising juxtapositions.
Reading �these chapters� is indeed like wandering in the
woods...They might in fact be called, more prosaically, "How to Be
a Good Reader," for Eco, in his incredibly manipulative way, has
you eating out of his hand by the end of them. -- Susan Salter
Reynolds "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
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