How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Eco, Professor Of Semiotics Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015600125X ISBN 13: 9780156001250

Publisher: Harpervia, 1995

Synopsis

How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, 33-function watches, fax machines and cellular phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and - last but definitely not least - the author's own self. How to Travel with a Salmon gives us Umberto Eco's acute vision of the absurdities of modern life.

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About the Author:

UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpervia
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 015600125X
• ISBN 13: 9780156001250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256