Confessions of a Young Novelist (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) by Umberto Eco

Confessions of a Young Novelist (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)

Umberto Eco

231 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction essays adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

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Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions," the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and...

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