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Re-connecting with old friendsMalaysia Star, MalaysiaA bit like the protagonist in Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, I proceeded to rediscover my past with my books. I went back to JRR Tolkien, renewing my annual reading of...
Sat May 16, 2009, 4:45 pm |
Ttbook: facing deathkuar, arumberto eco has some thoughts in favor of death. Diana athill has written her second memoir at the age of 91. Simon critchley wrote a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves....
Fri May 15, 2009, 9:27 pm |
Boyd Tonkin: Devilish plotting that might oust BrownIndependent, UKAnd it's infinitely more erotic than the prim Mr B. More recently, Umberto Eco achieved the bizarre feat of publishing a rip-roaring pastiche of the Da Vinci Code genre years...
Thu May 14, 2009, 4:04 pm |
TVNZ'Angels & Demons': Ridiculous, but don't miss itBuffalo News, United StatesAs is always the case with Dan Brown adaptations, it is so full of morsels of learning and lore parading around brazenly like celebs on Fellini'...
Thu May 14, 2009, 5:18 am |
Here Is The CityFirst Birthday ShockersHere Is The City, UKBilly No Box has worked in the city for six years, and currently works in Derivatives for a North American bank. He enjoys playing golf, reading books by Umberto Eco, singing "Copa...
Wed May 13, 2009, 1:15 pm |
"Stone's Fall:" a weapons maker falls from graceSeattle Times, United StatesWhen it was published, "An Instance of the Fingerpost" was widely compared to Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose." But I would sug...
Sun May 10, 2009, 1:25 pm |
Who is to blame for the tsunami of liquidity?Hindu, IndiaIt was like reading Umberto Eco ? language begets culture.? Citing a person who knows both firms well, Cohan informs that at Goldman Sachs, the language is very specifically less aggressiv...
Sat May 9, 2009, 9:32 am |
No room for the heretics: why medieval economics hold sway over ...Sydney Morning Herald, AustraliaAt university, I remember a professor using Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose to talk about why the public discussion of economics was often...
Sun May 3, 2009, 7:05 am |
Nugent's 'Soul Murder' has a moral seriousness reminiscent of PD JamesTelegraph-Journal, CanadaBut Umberto Eco thought otherwise and The Name of the Rose set new publishing records. Although Eco's novel is only in part a whoduni...
Sat May 2, 2009, 2:08 am |
The Comma SpliceThe Kubatana, ZimbabweThe writer of that sentence, Umberto Eco, chose the third option: his comma is followed by the conjunction ?for.? Pick up any newspaper or magazine, and you will find comma splices galore. They occur even mo...
Wed April 29, 2009, 12:29 am |
India abroad lip serviceHindustan Times, IndiaThe uncalming image of a very large pack of wolves fighting over Very Little Read Riding Hoods apart, I was too excited on hearing Umberto Eco speak an hour before to be focused. So I didn't kick...
Sat April 25, 2009, 11:51 am |
Genuine heroes have no idea how special they areDubuque Telegraph Herald, IAThey remind me of this observation by Umberto Eco: "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everyone else." Look ar...
Sat April 25, 2009, 8:21 am |
The Index On Censorship AwardMalaysia Today, MalaysiaOver the years, it has featured the writings of an impressive list of distinguished writers and thinkers that include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, Nadine Gordimer, Noam...
Fri April 24, 2009, 4:19 am |
Gormley's Exhibitionists to Join Art Tradition: Martin GayfordBloombergManzoni metamorphosed various contemporaries into art in this way, including nude models and the author and writer Umberto Eco. He authenticated his animate works with color-...
Thu April 23, 2009, 6:38 pm |
Drenka Willen Wins Lifetime Achievement , NYWillen's author list includes Gunter Grass, Umberto Eco, Jose Saramago, and Wislawa Szymborska. Writers on her list have won Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Poet Laureate of the United States, the...
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