Umberto Eco — The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

8 мая, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco

Daedalus Books / —

ISBN: 9780156030434
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Umberto Eco — The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana, 2006 год

18 апреля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call ‘semantic’ (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his ‘autobiographical’ memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn’t recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn’t remember anything about his parents or his childhood. His wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between Milan and Turin. Yambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diaries. There, he relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Cyrano de Bergerac. As he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lost.But a relapse occurs. Now in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a Dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image — the schoolgirl he never forgot. Copiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, «The Mysterious Flame» is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable Umberto Eco.

ISBN: 9780099481379
мягкая обложка, 464 стр.
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Umberto Eco — Kant And The Platypus, 2000 год

12 апреля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Kant And The Platypus - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
How we know that a cat is a cat is a nice philosophical poser, and has been since the time of Plato. Why we should all agree on calling the animal a cat is equally interesting, yet it throws up the problem that lies at the heart of all modern philosophy: how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Having decided against a systematic treatment of his subject, Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of ‘stories’ or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger and Peirce. And, as a beast designed specifically to throw spanners in the works of cognitive theory, the duckbilled platypus naturally takes centre stage.

ISBN: 9780099276951
мягкая обложка, 480 стр.
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Umberto Eco — Foucault’s Pendulum, 2001 год

20 марта, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth.

ISBN: 9780099287155
мягкая обложка, 652 стр.
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Umberto Eco — On Beauty, 2004 год

24 января, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
On Beauty - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. Beauty is Umberto Eco at his most captivating and eclectic: we read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how the fashion of the 1960s owes much to ancient Egyptian dress, and how ancient Roman and eighteenth-century hairstyles have much in common. It makes the familiar new, and sheds a brilliant new light on the unfamiliar. Illustrated in full colour throughout and produced to the highest standards, Beauty is an indispensable book.

ISBN: 9780436205170
твердый переплет, 438 стр.
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Umberto Eco — On Literature, 2006 год

11 января, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
On Literature - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante’s «Paradiso» is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre on nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature: one on the French writer Nerval’s masterpiece, «Sylvie» (a major influence on Eco and a novella that he translated into Italian), one on Oscar Wilde’s love of paradox, and one on Joyce’s views on language. The last three pieces deal with the road that leads from Cervantes via Swift to Borges’ «Library of Babel», then an essay on Eco’s own anxiety about Borges’ influence on him, and the volume ends with an article on the enigmatic Italian critic and anthropologist Piero Camporesi. «On Literature» is a provocative and entertaining collection of sprightly essays on the key texts that have shaped Eco, the novelist and critic. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in how new light is shed on old masters by a great contemporary mind.

ISBN: 9780099453949
мягкая обложка, 352 стр.
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Umberto Eco — The Name Of The Rose, 2004 год

30 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectacular popular and critical success, «The Name of the Rose» is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.

ISBN: 9780099466031
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Umberto Eco — The Island Of The Day Before, 1996 год

23 ноября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
The Island Of The Day Before - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the island beyond: the island of the day before.

ISBN: 9780749396664
мягкая обложка, 515 стр.
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Umberto Eco — Faith in Fakes, 1995 год

22 ноября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Faith in Fakes - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
By the author of «The Name of the Rose», these essays, written over the last 20 years and culled from newspapers and magazines, explore the rag-bag of modern consciousness. Eco considers a wide range of topics, from «Superman» and «Casablanca», Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to holography and waxworks, pop festivals and football, and not least the social and personal implications of tight jeans.

ISBN: 978-0-7493-9628-2
мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
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Umberto Eco — On Ugliness, 2007 год

8 октября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
On Ugliness - Umberto Eco

Random House UK / —
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, «On Beauty». Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The anthological quotations and the extraordinary illustrations in this book lead us on a surprising journey among the nightmares, terrors, and loves of almost three thousand years, where acts of rejection go hand in hand with touching gestures of compassion, and the rejection of deformity is accompanied by decadent ecstasies over the most seductive violations of all classical canons.Among demons, madmen, horrible enemies, and disquieting presences, among horrid abysses and deformities that verge on the sublime, among freaks and the living dead, we discover a vast and often unsuspected iconographic vein. So much so that, on gradually encountering in these pages the ugliness of nature, spiritual ugliness, asymmetry, disharmony, disfigurement, and the succession of things sordid, weak, vile, banal, random, arbitrary, coarse, repugnant, clumsy, horrendous, vacuous, nauseating, criminal, spectral, witchlike, satanic, repellent, disgusting, unpleasant, grotesque, abominable, odious, crude, foul, dirty, obscene, frightening, abject, monstrous, hair-raising, ugly, terrible, terrifying, revolting, repulsive, loathsome, fetid, ignoble, awkward, ghastly and indecent, the first foreign publisher to see this book exclaimed: ‘How beautiful ugliness is!’

ISBN: 9781846551222
твердый переплет, 432 стр.
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