Kirjahaku

"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.

Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book"

Umberto Eco, autor de novelas de éxito e importante teórico literario, funde en este libro esos dos papeles en un provocador debate en torno al controvertido tema de la interpretación literaria. Los límites de la interpretación – lo que se puede afirmar que significa realmente un texto – es una cuestión que interesa doblemente a un semiótico, autor de novelas cuya sorprendente complejidad ha sumido a los lectores en una gran especulación acerca de su significado. La iluminadora y a menudo ocurrente reflexión de Eco va de Dante a El nombre de la rosa, de El péndulo de Foucault a Chomsky y Derrida, y lleva todos los sellos de su inimitable estilo personal. Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler y Christine Brooke-Rose ofrecen sendas perspectivas sobre el polémico tema y dan lugar a un intercambio de ideas único entre algunos de los más destacados y estimulantes teóricos de la disciplina.

Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his investigations. Eco's celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction, metaphysical thriller, post-modernist puzzle and historical novel in one of the few twentieth-century books which can be described as genuinely unique.The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1986, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.