Ecolalia
Nicholas Penny, 4 September 1986
Faith in Fakes
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 307 pp., £15, August 1986,0 436 14088 8 Show More
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 307 pp., £15, August 1986,
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
by Umberto Eco, translated by Hugh Bredin.
Yale, 131 pp., £6.95, September 1986,0 300 03676 0 Show More
by Umberto Eco, translated by Hugh Bredin.
Yale, 131 pp., £6.95, September 1986,
“... The first of these books, Faith in Fakes, is a collection of essays – many of them newspaper pieces – by a ‘distinguished professor at the University of Bologna, with an international reputation as philosopher, historian and literary critic’. His subjects are novelties, many of which are now nearly forgotten. I cannot recommend anyone to reread McLuhan in order to appreciate Eco’s reservations about his theories, eminently judicious though these reservations are when compared with the enthusiasm of George Steiner or Raymond Williams ... ”