A provocative and entertaining collection of sprightly essays on the key texts that have shaped Eco the novelist and critic.
Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.
Appropriately rich and chaotic
*Sunday Times*
His most personal book so far...this book speaks loudly and
persuasively of the redemptive properties of good writing. This
book is both a large statement about literary aesthetics and the
elliptical spiritual autobiography of a major novelist. Eco writes
with characteristic intelligence, clarity, enthusiasm and charm. He
seems incapable of writing a dull paragraph, or a wrong-headed
one
*Scotland on Sunday*
An exciting, ecstatic work of criticism
*Guardian*
A good deal of intellectual athleticism on display... Eco is a
scintillating lecturer, and an elegant journalist... At his most
mercurial
*Independent*
On Literature is a provocative and entertaining collection of
sprightly essays on the key texts that have shaped Eco the novelist
and critic
*The Book People*
Appropriately rich and chaotic * Sunday Times *
His most personal book so far...this book speaks loudly and
persuasively of the redemptive properties of good writing. This
book is both a large statement about literary aesthetics and the
elliptical spiritual autobiography of a major novelist. Eco writes
with characteristic intelligence, clarity, enthusiasm and charm. He
seems incapable of writing a dull paragraph, or a wrong-headed one
* Scotland on Sunday *
An exciting, ecstatic work of criticism * Guardian *
A good deal of intellectual athleticism on display... Eco is a
scintillating lecturer, and an elegant journalist... At his most
mercurial * Independent *
On Literature is a provocative and entertaining collection
of sprightly essays on the key texts that have shaped Eco the
novelist and critic * The Book People *
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