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By Umberto Eco

ISBN-10: 0156607522

ISBN-13: 9780156607520

Satirical essays within which Eco pokes enjoyable on the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating reviews approximately our glossy mass tradition and the elitist avant-garde. “A scintillating choice of writings” (Los Angeles Times). Translated via William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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So I think we'd do better to launch a series of really popular titles at reasonable prices : the works of Gil­ das or Anselm of Aosta, for example. And leave to the little avant-garde magazines the numbered edi­ tions on handmade paper. "For there neid faere, naenig uuirthit . . " The linguistic hash of the post­ moderns. Tasso, Torquato, Jerusalem Liberated As a "modern" epic of chivalry, this isn't bad. It's written gracefully, and the situations are fairly fresh : 38 Regretfully, We Are Returning Your .

There should be a relationship that will allow you to unify the things that you have witnessed, the things that have wit­ nessed you, and the things you have been. The things in which you have seen yourself motionless mu�t have some ambiguous connection with both the things that have been seen and with you who have seen. If the man made a leap toward the picture and gripped the child with his teeth, you then pursued him into the picture, beyond the door of the tavern and into the road over which whitish flakes of snow flutter, first slanting then increasingly straight and closer to your eyes, Jike filiform, darting shadows, vague dots that vibrate before you.

It's written gracefully, and the situations are fairly fresh : 38 Regretfully, We Are Returning Your . . high time poets stopped imitating the Breton or Car­ olingian cycles. But let's face it, the story is about the Crusaders and the taking of J erusalem, a religious subject. We can't expect to sell such a book to the younger generation of "angries. " At best we'll get good reviews in Our Sunday Visitor or maybe The Tablet. Even there, I have doubts about the reception of certain erotic scenes that are a bit too lewd.

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