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Misreadings
Misreadings
By
Umberto Eco
,
Translated by
William Weaver
$ 14.95
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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
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.
ISBN: 9780156607520
ISBN-10: 9780156607520
Publisher: HarperVia
Publication Date: 05/07/1993 - 12:00am
On Sale: 05/07/1993 - 12:00am
Pages: 192
Language: English
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