![]() ![]() It was a pure pleasure to hear one more refrain from that great orchestra of a mind. I’m sure it will be racked as “minor” Eco, but even minor Eco is worthy of any thinking human’s attention. ![]() There are joyful bursts of old Eco in here - a group of delirious pages about fake orders in Malta, big passages of mad wordgames - and then, joyfully, a big weird conspiracy plot, Eco’s love of genre in full effect. ![]() Reading from our own vantage, we know it’s doomed, of course, and Eco has a lot of fun with layers of short-sightedness and some score-settling knifework upon the Italian newspaper industry as well as the obvious media mogul targets. Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - SoftcoverCondition: Very Good US 4. Almost in the manner of Bigend’s “Node” in Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy, an unseen actor is creating a sequence of dummy runs of a newspaper in order to practise causing effects upon the power structures of the day. Numero Zero Eco, Umberto, Dixon, Richard Published byHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 ISBN 10: 054466826XISBN 13: 9780544668263 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A. It’s a short and sweet little book, like a tiny aftershock from FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM, set in the early 1990s and concerning a newspaper that doesn’t exist. If you know me at all, you know I have unholy love for Eco’s work, fiction and non-fiction. This is a review for used bookstore in Irvine, CA: 'So happy to find this independent bookstore in Old Town Tustin. NUMERO ZERO was the final Umberto Eco novel. ![]()
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