Misreadings

Rating:
Summary: An entertaining compilation of short stories
Review: Eco, as is his form, provides a series of entertaining and poignant stories covering topics such as blue-jeans, media reports from the discovery of America and conversations with God. If you enjoy the range and depth of Travels in Hyperreality, then you will enjoy this book.

Rating:
Summary: An entertaining compilation of short stories
Review: Eco, as is his form, provides a series of entertaining and poignant stories covering topics such as blue-jeans, media reports from the discovery of America and conversations with God. If you enjoy the range and depth of Travels in Hyperreality, then you will enjoy this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great fun for literary buffs
Review: This is a book of parodies Eco originally wrote for a magazine in the sixties. They are great fun, with lots of jokes about literature; Nabokov ("my name is Umberto Umberto", says the hero in "Granita"), Kafka (a publisher's rejection letter for "The Trial": "..And why is the protagonist is being put to trial? If we clarify these points and make the setting more concrete..."), Joyce & Co are parodied or alluded to in the articles.

This is probably the most lighthearted book of Eco. Even if you are not interested in his work, if you like literature and humour, you will enjoy this book a lot.

Rating:
Summary: Great fun for literary buffs
Review: This is a book of parodies Eco originally wrote for a magazine in the sixties. They are great fun, with lots of jokes about literature; Nabokov ("my name is Umberto Umberto", says the hero in "Granita"), Kafka (a publisher's rejection letter for "The Trial": "..And why is the protagonist is being put to trial? If we clarify these points and make the setting more concrete..."), Joyce & Co are parodied or alluded to in the articles.

This is probably the most lighthearted book of Eco. Even if you are not interested in his work, if you like literature and humour, you will enjoy this book a lot.