Chronicles of a Liquid Society
  • Published: 14 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473547193
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

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The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants: an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones

Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity and wisdom written in his uniquely ironic voice.

Written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l’Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition, incisiveness and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, unbridled individualism, conspiracies, the old and the young, mobile phones, mass media, racism, good manners and the crisis in ideological values. It is a final gift to his readers – astute, witty and illuminating.
  • Published: 14 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473547193
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

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Also by Umberto Eco

On the Shoulders of Giants
How to Spot a Fascist
How to Write a Thesis
The Prague Cemetery
The Name Of The Rose
This is Not the End of the Book
Inventing the Enemy
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Praise for Chronicles of a Liquid Society

He brilliantly exposes all that is absurd and paradoxical in contemporary behaviour. Eco’s irony is disarming, his cleverness dazzling

Tim Parks, Guardian

A swan song from one of Europe's great intellectuals...Eco entertains with his intellect, humor, and insatiable curiosity...there's much here to enjoy and ponder

Kirkus Reviews

Eco has left us an intelligent, intriguing, and often hilariously incisive set of observations on contemporary follies and changing mores.

Publisher's Weekly

There are people you’ve never met and yet you miss them when they are gone… Eco’s famously ironic voice is penetrating … The issues Eco addresses are so enormous in their scale they seem insurmountable, yet his measured, erudite commentary assures you that they can be understood and therefore resolved

Financial Times

Illuminating, entertaining and humane.

Emily Beament, UK Press Syndication