Misreadings

by Umberto Eco

Other authorsWilliam Weaver (Translator)
Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Publication

San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1993.

Description

"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."--Publisher's description.

User reviews

LibraryThing member HadriantheBlind
A short collection of Eco's earlier essays, witty and sparkling and original.
LibraryThing member jonfaith
Culled from Eco's work for a literary magazine in the late 50s and early 60s, Misreadings is largely a series of lampoons and satire, exploiting the trends of the time. Much appears dated. The mass man of the Mad Men is approached by structuralist means. Kinsey meets Ho Chi Minh.

That said, there a
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few jewels, notably Letter to My Son penned in 1964 for his infant son Stefano, such is a meditation on military toys and a need for nurturing a sense of history. Make Your Own Movie is a digression on semiotics and cinema, one so rich as to give notice to those trawlers of Derrida and DFW.
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LibraryThing member et.carole
Of course I liked it. What I can understand of Eco's writing is hilarious. 2017 was the year of Eco and it is looking like 2018 is off to a good start of being a second edition.

Language

Original language

Italian

Barcode

2372
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