by Umberto Eco · Livre De Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253121732
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«À reculons comme une écrevisse» is a book of essays by Umberto Eco, published by Livre de Poche in paperback (466 pages, in French).
It brings together texts written between 2000 and 2005 in which Umberto Eco analyzes 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and media populism in Italy. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author sees old conflicts and ancestral fears resurging, as if history were moving backward, at a crab's pace.
French edition published in 2008; translation of the original Italian «A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico» (2006).
For readers interested in Umberto Eco's essayistic work and in the analysis of 21st-century politics and society.
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.
