Serendipities：Language and Lunacy

作者: Umberto Eco （安伯托·艾柯）著 , William Weaver 译

出版社: Mariner Books

出版时间: 1999-11

ISBN: 9780156007511

定价: 95.10

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 144页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Uncovering layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, Eco offers with wit and clarity such instances as Columbus's voyage to the New World, the fictions that grew around the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar, and the linguistic endeavors to recreate the language of Babel, to show how serendipities can evolve out of mistakes. With erudition, anecdotes, and scholarly rigor, this new collection of essays is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas. Umberto Eco is the author of four bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before and Baudolino. His collections of essays also include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Faith in Fakes, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.

安伯托·艾柯是当代欧洲最著名的学者和作家。《剑桥意大利文学史》将他誉为20世纪后半期最耀眼的意大利作家。艾柯的世界辽阔而又多重，除了随笔、杂文和小说，还有大量论文、论著和编著。《玫瑰的名字》（The Name of the Rose (1983)）是他的第一本小说，自1980年出版后，迅速赢得各界一致好评，荣获意大利两个最高文学奖和法国的文学奖，席卷欧美各地的畅销排行榜，迄今销售已超过一千六百万册，并被翻译成三十五种文字，在美、加、英、法、德均被誉为“最佳小说”，受到读者和评论界的交口称赞。第二本小说《傅科摆》（Foucault's Pendulum (1989)又再度引起极大轰动，成为最热门的阅读话题。埃柯的第三本小说《昨日之岛》（The Island of the Day Before (1995)），自1994年出版后，亦已畅销逾三百万册。埃柯另著有《带着鲑鱼去旅行》、《误读》、《智慧女神的火药》、《康德与鸭兽》等杂文集。2001年，埃柯又有新长篇小说《Baudolino》问世。近作为《The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana》(2005)
内容简介:
Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Uncovering layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, Eco offers with wit and clarity such instances as Columbus's voyage to the New World, the fictions that grew around the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar, and the linguistic endeavors to recreate the language of Babel, to show how serendipities can evolve out of mistakes. With erudition, anecdotes, and scholarly rigor, this new collection of essays is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas.
作者简介:
Umberto Eco is the author of four bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before and Baudolino. His collections of essays also include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Faith in Fakes, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.

安伯托·艾柯是当代欧洲最著名的学者和作家。《剑桥意大利文学史》将他誉为20世纪后半期最耀眼的意大利作家。艾柯的世界辽阔而又多重，除了随笔、杂文和小说，还有大量论文、论著和编著。《玫瑰的名字》（The Name of the Rose (1983)）是他的第一本小说，自1980年出版后，迅速赢得各界一致好评，荣获意大利两个最高文学奖和法国的文学奖，席卷欧美各地的畅销排行榜，迄今销售已超过一千六百万册，并被翻译成三十五种文字，在美、加、英、法、德均被誉为“最佳小说”，受到读者和评论界的交口称赞。第二本小说《傅科摆》（Foucault's Pendulum (1989)又再度引起极大轰动，成为最热门的阅读话题。埃柯的第三本小说《昨日之岛》（The Island of the Day Before (1995)），自1994年出版后，亦已畅销逾三百万册。埃柯另著有《带着鲑鱼去旅行》、《误读》、《智慧女神的火药》、《康德与鸭兽》等杂文集。2001年，埃柯又有新长篇小说《Baudolino》问世。近作为《The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana》(2005)

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