World Literature Today Reseña del editor:īest-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Scotland on Sunday Informative, instructive, and entertaining. Review of Contemporary Fiction These essays are equally entertaining and unusual. Publishers Weekly Eco's insistent curiosity, his vital imagination and his almost overwhelming erudition work together like forces of nature to push and pull the book's five essays in unpredictable directions. But Eco's ability to balance technical subject matter with broadly intelligible anecdotes and illustrations should make it valuable and pleasurable for anyone seeking a gallant introduction to the philosophy of language. Library Journal This collection will certainly appeal to specialists. Throughout, his treatments are informative, intellectually sophisticated, and thoroughly entertaining. They all have a part in this intriguing look at how the study of language can be full of surprises.
The Atlantic Fans of Eco's novels will not be left dissatisfied-his fictional players are still present: Templars, Illuminati, Jesuits, Theosophists, and Masons. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions.
The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane.
Scott Gordon The Daily Yomiuri Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous. Eco cajoles his readers to go out and learn more, and perhaps, to disagree with him.
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