After the opening essay on the general significance of literature,
Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A
stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is
followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next
three essays centre on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
literature: one on the French writer Nerval's masterpiece, Sylvie
(a major influence on Eco and a novella that he translated into
Italian), one on Oscar Wilde's love of paradox, and one on Joyce's
views on language. The last three pieces deal with the road that
leads from Cervantes via Swift to Borges' Library of Babel, then an
essay on Eco's own anxiety about Borges' influence on him, and the
volume ends with an article on the enigmatic Italian critic and
anthropologist Piero Camporesi. On Literature is a provocative and
entertaining collection of sprightly essays on the key texts that
have shaped Eco, the novelist and critic.
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