Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader—his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007 and all his ladies. We see, hear, and feel Umberto Eco, the passionate reader who has gotten lost over and over again in the woods, loved it, and come back to tell the tale, The Tale of Tales. Eco tells us how fiction works, and he also tells us why we love fiction so much. This is no deconstructionist ripping the veil off the Wizard of Oz to reveal his paltry tricks, but the Wizard of Art himself inviting…
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July 21, 1998
Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His other books include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings, and How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays. He lives in Milan.
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Umberto Eco, ensayista italiano de renombre internacional y profesor en la universidad de Bolonia, hizo su entrada triunfal en el mundo de la ficción hace más de treinta años con El nombre de la rosa, una novela que lo convirtió en un autor admirado tanto por la crítica como por el gran público. A este primer éxito siguieron El péndulo de Foucault, La isla del día de antes, Baudolino y La misteriosa llama de la reina…
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