Inventing the Enemy

Title: Inventing the Enemy Author: Umberto Eco ISBN: 9780544104686 Publisher: HarperVia Published: 2013 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: F First Paperback Edition Used Condition Note: New from the publisher Essays: 1693551 Section: Literary Criticism | European | Italian Publisher Description: The final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century--essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession. "Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco's pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious." --Booklist The essays in Inventing the Enemy cover a wide range of topics on which Eco wrote and lectured, including a disquisition on the theme that runs through his novel The Prague Cemetery--ev