Describe Books As How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Diario minimo #2)
| Original Title: | Il secondo diario minimo |
| ISBN: | 0151001367 (ISBN13: 9780151001361) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Diario minimo #2 |
Umberto Eco
Hardcover | Pages: 248 pages Rating: 3.85 | 5475 Users | 355 Reviews
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It's a pretty hard task to speak out your mind -truthfully- about important people's writings. Umberto Eco is a well known and highly celebrated for his works, philosopher, writer, anthropologist, sociologist and so on, but that doesn't exclude him from critics, ratings and reviews and it shouldn't either.
This particular collection is filled with articles targeting mundane vexations of modern life -that he radically hates- and what enables us to face them. Whilst the reader can identify a great mind, a very educated and interesting individual behind those essays, the elitism is too obvious and a very alienating factor in my opinion.
Although i'm not a big fan and i find his books mostly overrated, i can not but acknowledge the subtly cynical and quite humorous attacks in things and situations that even now 30 years or so after he wrote most of those pieces, are still relevant. He lambastes bureaucracy, technology, the political scene in general, in his very distinguish way, but he surely misses the mark on some levels sounding more like an overly dramatic broken record.
The academic pieces were stronger, very influential and provided food for thought and those were definitely my favorite along with the first one, while the rest were sub-par. All in all 2,5 stars for this interesting and versatile collection of essays.
Present About Books How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Diario minimo #2)
| Title | : | How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Diario minimo #2) |
| Author | : | Umberto Eco |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 248 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1994 by Houghton Mifflin (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Philosophy. Humor. European Literature. Italian Literature. Short Stories. Cultural. Italy |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 5475 Users | 355 ReviewsCommentary About Books How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Diario minimo #2)
Eco can be really funny :)I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing. - Umberto Eco (1932-2016)Probably not the first Umberto Eco one would pick up, but this caught my eye at a quaint hotel in Matheran.It is a series of articles, with topics from one's daily routine, taken forward via witty, haphazard thoughts. From
Hilarity is what we can find while reading this sequel of his "Misreadings" (Picador 1994) since Umberto Eco has written like a true professor as aptly credited to St. Augustine I read somewhere some years ago, that is, 'St. Augustine wrote like a professor' [to verify, Would any GR friend please inform me if you know its reference?]. This of course has proven one thing, that is, writing is one of the tough, grinding and formidable processes essential to all good and great professors worldwide
Laughed my pants out
Brain candy, pure and simple. And good, too.
As my beloved Daniel Pennac writes in one of his books on reader's bill of rights: 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finishAnd this is what I did from page 156 until the end. Sorry. That was way too much for me.Eco was AMAZING, I truly think he was one of the best writers ever. But you really need to have an extended background on literature, philosophy, history, semiotics, basically EVERYTHING to be able to fully enjoy these essays. Sadly, I am not that person. I still want to give
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