MISREADINGS, Umberto Eco

Judul/Title: Misreadings
Penulis/Writer: Umberto Eco
Penerbit/Publisher: Picador
Edisi/Edition: 1993
Halaman/Pages: 180
Dimensi/Dimension: 19 x 13x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperbacks
Bahasa/Language: Inggris
Kategori/Category: Dijual,Disewakan/For Sale,For Rent


Call No.:858/Eco/m/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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From the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum comes a briliant collection of Playful parodies...

In an upside-down Lolita, Umberto Umberto pursues a granny with 'whitely lascivious locks'. Professor Anouk Ooma of Prince Joseph's Land University adresses his collagues on recent archaeological findings that shed light on the poetry of Italy before the Explosion. Colombus's landing in the New World is covered by television reporters, commentators and guest experts. We are permitted to see in house publishers readers reports, most of them unfavourable on such submissions as The odyssey, Don Quixote, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and the five books of Moses; and we hear a diatribe, in ancient Greece, against the vulgarity of such upstarts as Herodotus, Thucydides and Plato.

For sheer exuberant good humor, nothing could surpass Misreadings, a collection of parodies and squibs that began appearing in the 1950's and 1960's but whose panache has not faded one bit'

Marina warner, Books of the Year
Independent on Sunday

Made up vintage, good-humored games- parodies of think pieces, spoof essays and carnival pranks'
Lorna Sage, Books of the Year, Observer