How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
by Umberto Eco
Published for the first time: 1/1/1992
248 pages, Hardcover
Genres: Italy, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Essays, Humor, Philosophy, Short Stories
Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more--including himself.
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