{"product_id":"on-literature-book-of-semiotics-umberto-eco-9780151008124","title":"On Literature","description":"In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks to understand the chemistry of [his] passion for the word. Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge dazzle throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. \u003cbr\u003eIlluminating, accessible, stimulating, this collection exhibits Eco's diversity of interests and depth of knowledge in pieces such as these and many more: \u003cbr\u003eA Reading of the \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Style of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilde: Paradox and Aphorism\u003cbr\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor\u003cbr\u003eBorges and My Anxiety of Influence\u003cbr\u003eOn Symbolism\u003cbr\u003eOn Style\u003cbr\u003eThe American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUmberto Eco\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His collections of essays include \u003ci\u003eKant and the Platypus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSerendipities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravels in Hyperreality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow to Travel with a Salmon\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of the bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFoucault's Pendulum\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBaudolino\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Milan. \u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569447149841,"sku":"GOR002193313","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581570392337,"sku":"GOR010924588","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50292671807761,"sku":"CIN0151008124A","price":4.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50496140738833,"sku":"CIN0151008124G","price":4.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52102999703825,"sku":"CIN0151008124VG","price":7.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151008124.jpg?v=1750737387","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/on-literature-book-of-semiotics-umberto-eco-9780151008124","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}