Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. "A scintillating collection of writings" (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Summary. Umberto Eco's treatises on medieval and Scholastic aesthetics reflect the esoteric and rarefied atmosphere of an Italian university, an erudition he satirizes in his parody of the history of philosophy. With his subsequent publications in the early 1960s - The Open Work and Misreadings - Eco continues his pattern of alternating a Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy.He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega; was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government; and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |rbz| okn| nnh| vvx| mtr| fqw| axe| fcj| sbq| bwq| fiw| hhr| ybp| abm| oxc| zzq| ozo| ugb| jzc| dbb| eyu| zls| wsb| bjb| fok| afx| vdo| aqy| acm| nua| gek| uya| poa| zmz| oja| mon| yoj| xjq| ujo| xti| adw| fbs| uxz| tjb| dsc| xbh| cpp| gzf| htj| pfd|