Misreadings

by Umberto Eco | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0330334689 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 12/10/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by Stoepbrak from Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Saturday, December 10, 2011
Synopsis (Credit: Back cover)

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 Eco 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 an in-house publisher's 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.

(Bought second-hand at Book Wise Exchange, High Street, Bellville.)

Journal Entry 2 by Stoepbrak at Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Monday, August 26, 2013

These pieces started out as a monthly column. While some of them have dated a bit (who of us haven't?) it is always fun to come up against the sharp mind of Umberto Eco.

In these parodies he often takes a look at familiar scenes from a totally unexpected angle. I suspect he and Gary Larson would have fun scheming together!

Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at MyCiTi Bus in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (9/25/2013 UTC) at MyCiTi Bus in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa

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To be left on the MyCiTi bus on the way to the airport.

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