Literature Thing
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Eco, the encyclopedic writer who is famous in the literary world, summons ancient and modern masters, enumerates literary koans, and confesses his writing career. From here, you can walk into Borges' Library of Babel, listen to the conversation between Joyce and Dante, wander through the mist of Valois in Nerval, and relive the American myths of three generations... We will take you to understand Eco's literary panorama, his joy and anxiety, creation and superstition. "This Thing of Literature" is one of the few literary criticism monographs among Umberto Eco's works. It collects the writer's speeches and essays on literature for various occasions. As a world-renowned semiotician, Eco's extensive knowledge is brought into full play in this book. The eighteen special articles included in this book range from Joyce and Borges to Dante and Rabelais in the Middle Ages, and even Aristotle in the distant past. With a cross-disciplinary perspective that is different from that of ordinary literary critics, Eco accurately analyzes many important literary concepts that echo the past and the present, the eternal pursuit of human nature reflected in literary masterpieces, and the historical process of literary connotation. The whole book is full of literary talent and clear ideas. When you open the book, you feel like you are attending a literature class by a master.
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