by Umberto Eco · GRASSET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246487210
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«Six promenades dans les bois du roman et d'ailleurs» is Umberto Eco's essay on literary criticism, published by Grasset in paperback (190 pages, in French).
Umberto Eco dissects the mechanisms of reading and the boundary between fiction and reality. With examples from Dumas to Poe, from Dante to Ian Fleming, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to War and Peace, and also with his own novels, he argues that understanding a work deeply increases the pleasure of reading. The analysis of Sylvie, by Gérard de Nerval, serves as a guiding thread.
Text of the Norton Lectures given by Eco at Harvard in 1994. French edition; 190 pages in paperback.
For readers interested in literary theory and the mechanisms of narrative, and for those who want to learn about Umberto Eco's ideas on reading.
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.
