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Tatzelwurm

Posted: Aug 9 2009, 09:11 AM

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http://www.thebookseller.com/news/93210-um...th-quercus.html

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Umberto Eco is to publish his third volume to On Beauty and On Ugliness with MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus.

An Infinity of Lists: From Homer to Pynchon has been translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwan. The book is an illustrated celebration of lists in literature, music and art. It will be published in hardback priced at �35 on 5th November this year.

suzannahhh	Posted: Aug 9 2009, 09:15 AM
Forum junkie Group: Members Posts: 8,042 Member No.: 9 Joined: 20-November 06	Tatz that List book looks delicious lists is one of my favorite things in Finnegans Wake

Tatzelwurm	Posted: Aug 9 2009, 09:18 AM
Gran madrugador y amigo de la caza Group: Members Posts: 2,519 Member No.: 259 Joined: 23-February 07	Aye, for me it's especially Rabelais and Greenaway.

suzannahhh	Posted: Aug 9 2009, 09:23 AM
Forum junkie Group: Members Posts: 8,042 Member No.: 9 Joined: 20-November 06	onne of my favorite own poems is essentially a list poem (I'll post it in the your writing thread: called Outpouring)

Bleakhaus	Posted: Aug 9 2009, 10:30 PM
Literary lunatic Group: Admin Posts: 607 Member No.: 1 Joined: 20-November 06	funny-- Eco mentioned SOMEwhere (in Foucault's Pendulum, maybe??), years ago, that he had been half-working on a book about lists. Glad it got finished.

Tatzelwurm

Posted: Aug 10 2009, 04:26 AM

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QUOTE (Bleakhaus @ Aug 9 2009, 10:30 PM)

funny-- Eco mentioned SOMEwhere (in Foucault's Pendulum, maybe??), years ago, that he had been half-working on a book about lists. Glad it got finished.

In 'Postscript to The Name of the Rose'

Tatzelwurm

Posted: Sep 27 2009, 12:20 PM

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Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting. This book, featuring lavish reproductions of artworks from the Louvre and other world-famous collections, is a philosophical and artistic sequel to Eco�s recent acclaimed books, History of Beauty and On Ugliness, books in which he delved into the psychology, philosophy, history, and art of human forms. Eco is a modern-day Diderot, and here he examines the Western mind�s predilection for list-making and the encyclopedic. His central thesis is that in Western culture a passion for accumulation is recurring: lists of saints, catalogues of plants, collections of art. This impulse has recurred through the ages from music to literature to art. Eco refers to this obsession itself as a "giddiness of lists" but shows how in the right hands it can be a "poetics of catalogues." From medieval reliquaries to Andy Warhol�s compulsive collecting, Umberto Eco reflects in his inimitably inspiring way on how such catalogues mirror the spirit of their times.

http://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Lists-Illus...y/dp/0847832961

Porphry	Posted: Oct 30 2009, 10:36 AM
last too-sick disciple Group: Members Posts: 519 Member No.: 1,819 Joined: 9-April 08	In French, two articles on two new publications by Eco, one being the French translation of the lists book. http://www.liberation.fr/livres/0101599917-tour-de-listes http://www.liberation.fr/livres/0101599918...-pour-le-papier

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