by Umberto Eco · Editions du Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020053273
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«L'œuvre ouverte» is Umberto Eco's essay on philosophy and literary theory, published by Editions du Seuil in paperback (315 pages, in French).
The essay examines contemporary works conceived as open structures: musical pieces of variable order, mobile sculptures, informal painting, and semantic games. Eco links the concept of the open work to current culture, chance, and information theory, and asks how far a work can open without ceasing to communicate.
Published in the Points Essais collection (no. 107); French translation of «Opera aperta» (1962), by Chantal Roux de Bézieux with the collaboration of André Boucourechliev.
For readers interested in philosophy, semiotics, cultural criticism, and contemporary aesthetics.
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.
