The famous novel “The Name of Rose” saw the light in 1980. When a major scientist – a semiologist, a medievalist, a mass culture specialist – suddenly became the author of the world bestseller, he was suspected of inventing a computer program that generates literary masterpieces. More than thirty years have passed, and Umberto IVF, recognized master of artistic prose, publishes a cycle of his Harvard lectures, inviting us “for the curtains”, where new worlds are created.
Why does Anna Karenina’s suicide leave us indifferent? Is it possible to say that Gregor Zamz and Leopold Bloom “exist”? Where is the border between reality and fiction? The study of the writer’s creative arsenal unexpectedly leads to answers to difficult questions: where the novels come from, how they are written and why they play such an important role in our lives.
Author
Eco Umberto
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Translator
Klimin Alexander
Publisher
Corpus, 2013
16+
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