Sunday, November 18, 2007

long knives for Eco

A review of Umberto Eco's On Ugliness on the Village Voice. It seems the reviewer judges it to be a lesser work, born of prior research. He also declares it to be Eurocentric, which is a bit obvious, in that this is Umberto Eco here. Why on earth would we expect him to start writing about Africa and Japan at this age?

Admittedly, i don't expect much from this book. It's essays from Eco. That's enough for me, so the reviewer's expectations seem too high.

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