Pastiches et Postiches
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782253099383 (2253099384)
Publish date: March 9th 2005
Publisher: Le Livre de poche
Pages no: 220
Edition language: French
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
Italian Literature
Blurb: These 15 essays by semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose) originally appeared between 1959 and 1972 in an Italian literary magazine, Il Verri. They are actually satires, pastiches of publishing, art and literature, in which Eco pokes fun at the over-sophisticated, the ov...