The Book of Legendary Lands

ISBN-13: 9780857052964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 480 str.

Umberto Eco

Opis

Umberto Eco explores the most distant realms of our imagination

Recenzje

Eco's book is a reminder that writers and readers once travelled widely and magnificently, without ever leaving their homes or their heads, to places that retained their truth in our imaginations long after mundane reality overtook them. The Times

O autorze

Eco, UmbertoUmberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose (1982), was a huge bestseller which brought him worldwide acclaim. With his subsequent works of fiction, philosophy, literary criticism and semiotics, he has been recognised as one of Europe's finest thinkers. He is currently President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Humanistici and the University of Bologna. He is also known for his lavishly illustrated anthologies, On Beauty, On Ugliness, The Infinity of Lists and The Book of Legendary Lands.