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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

by Umberto Eco · 1992

Diario minimo series

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Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more—including himself.

Subject
philosophytravelliterary criticismbiographysocial science
Genre
humor
Themes
writers
Setting
1990sItalyEuropean
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 248 pages
Form
essaysshort stories

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