Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-674-81051-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

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 us to join him up at his level, the Sorcerer inviting us to become his apprentice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eco, Umberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Eco, Umberto
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an acclaimed writer, philosopher, medievalist, and semiotician. In addition to dozens of nonfiction books, he authored seven novels, including <i>The Name of the Rose,</i> which has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide.