Inventing the Enemy: Essays - Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for the past ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel, The Prague Cemeteryevery country needs an enemy, and if it doesnt have one, must invent itto a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels. Along the way, he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world. Eco also sheds light on the indignant reviews of James Joyces Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, and provides a lively examination of Saint Thomas Aquinass notions about the soul of an unborn child, censorship, violence, and WikiLeaks. These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsessions by one of the worlds most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.


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 ⚡️Book Title : Inventing the Enemy: Essays
⚡Book Author : Umberto Eco
⚡Page : 222 pages
⚡Published September 4th 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2011)

Inventing the Enemy: Essays

Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for the past ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel, The Prague Cemeteryevery country needs an enemy, and if it doesnt have one, must invent itto a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels. Along the way, he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world. Eco also sheds light on the indignant reviews of James Joyces Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, and provides a lively examination of Saint Thomas Aquinass notions about the soul of an unborn child, censorship, violence, and WikiLeaks. These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsessions by one of the worlds most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.