Let the cork out
John Bayley, 26 October 1989
Foucault’s Pendulum
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 641 pp., £14.95, October 1989,0 436 14096 9 Show More
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 641 pp., £14.95, October 1989,
The Open Work
by Umberto Eco, translated by Anna Cancogni.
Radius, 285 pp., £9.95, October 1989,0 09 175896 3 Show More
by Umberto Eco, translated by Anna Cancogni.
Radius, 285 pp., £9.95, October 1989,
“... And since outside it, all the more able to participate in it with readerly and writerly zest. Umberto Eco seems to be having it both ways, as he did in The Name of the Rose, offering mystery, quest and romance, while retaining, for himself, and for us, the privilege of the higher frivolity. It is in a sense an old trick, which his fellow-countryman ... ”