Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy.
How to travel with a salmon & other essays
by Weaver, William, Eco, Umberto, Eco, Umberto
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 play…
How to travel with a salmon & other essays
by Weaver, William, Eco, Umberto
fromHarvest book
In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translat…
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 playf…
Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.