By Hitch Go To PostYeah. Sounds interesting but if it requires a lot of knowledge of religious and geographical history I'll bounce right off of it.they made it into a movie with Sean Connery and Christian Slater. If those two knuckleheads could handle it...
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By Hitch Go To PostYeah. Sounds interesting but if it requires a lot of knowledge of religious and geographical history I'll bounce right off of it.Just because Eco was a snooty semiotics professor, it doesn't mean he couldn't write a riveting period detective murder mystery. In fact, the two might've been related.( I'm happy you liked Pentiment this much).
Now, Foucault's Pendulum on the other hand... a bit more demanding imo.
All I know about Umberto Eco is that Chris Remo used to bang on about him on Idle Thumbs all the time
He was one of the most brilliant scholars of the 20th century. If you studied anything related to literature, philosophy or media I'm guessing anywhere after the 60s, but 100% surely between the 80s and the 2000s, every university syllabus was filled with his works and essays, so pretty hard to escape and not bang on about, I imagine know.
He'd just as easily write about classic literature as he'd do about Star Wars or Superman, and he was very insightful when breaking down the reach of mass media and its proliferation of mass culture.
I'd recommend this essay to everyone: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025015.pdf
He'd just as easily write about classic literature as he'd do about Star Wars or Superman, and he was very insightful when breaking down the reach of mass media and its proliferation of mass culture.
I'd recommend this essay to everyone: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025015.pdf