by Umberto Eco · Difel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722908245
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«A passo de caranguejo» is a collection of articles and essays by Umberto Eco, published by Difel in paperback (388 pages, in Portuguese).
Between 2000 and 2005, the writings gathered in this volume were published, the years of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and media populism in Italy. Eco reflects on politics, media, technology, and popular culture: from the Da Vinci code to football and from the Internet to Berlusconi. History seems to move backwards, at a crab's pace.
Translated by Ana Eduarda Santos from the Italian original «A passo di gambero», this edition appeared in 2007 with the subtitle «Guerras quentes e populismo mediático».
For readers interested in Umberto Eco's thought, political and social analysis, and cultural criticism of the early 21st century.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
