Confessions of a Young Novelist

by Umberto Eco

Book Overview

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 explores their fruitful conjunction.

He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction--playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674058690
• ISBN13: 9780674058699
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 7.3"