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Chronicles of A Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco
$29.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and explores their fruitful conjunction. This book takes reader ...Show more
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco (University of Bologna)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Harvest Book
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accura ...Show more
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a The ...Show more
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
"Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme ...Show more
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost ...Show more
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a f ...Show more
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Pa ...Show more
On Ugliness: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to understand the nature of the second. But the various depictions of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
$65.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompani ...Show more