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

Call No.:858/Eco/m/C.1

Status: Terjual/Sold

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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