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This article has been published in: Ocula 29, Flux 2024

author: Michele Marmo

Speaking of Books. Reviews, introductions, prefaces, afterwords and bibliographical entries published by Umberto Eco from 1953 to 1968

language: italian

abstract: The present paper serves as a first systematic study on one of the lesser-known aspects of Umberto Eco's work, namely the one concerning his paratextual production. Specifically, we go through all the re-views, introductions, prefaces, postfaces and biblio-graphical notes written by Umberto Eco during his “presemiotic phase” (1953-1968); the aim is to trace a first path through Eco's paratexts and determine how many there are, what they are, which audiences they address, what themes they deal with, what influ-ences and connections they present with respect to what is written from time to time in his “major" works. The ultimate goal of this paper is to contrib-ute to obtaining a more comprehensive understand-ing of the complete Eco's body of work.

citation information: Michele Marmo, Parlando di libri. Recensioni, introduzioni, prefazioni, postfazioni e schede bibliografiche pubblicate da Umberto Eco dal 1953 al 1968, "Ocula", vol.25, n.29, pp.89-112, November 2024. DOI: 10.57576/ocula2024-21

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