Just finished The Name of the Rose and wondered if anybody wanted to stop cyclically navel gazing over Turgenev, Pynchon and DFW and have a discussion on the late great Umberto Eco.
you start
>>8004735
I love his work.
And the Apostilles to pic related are an amazing piece of literature insight.
>>8004735
italian dan brown
>>8004735
why did you use last names until umberto?
He's reddit-tier
more like DUMBERTO ECO
>>8005090
this is the cancer
>cyclically navel gazing over Turgenev, Pynchon and DFW
>Turgenev
did this autocorrect from Tao Lin?
>>8005137
lmao
>>8004735
someone give this man an upvote and buy him gold
this board is basically a subreddit now
>>8004984
just the opposite.
who the fuck navel gazes over Turgenev
>>8005137
As if this board would talk about a different russian author then tolstoy and dostovesky.
>>8005090
>>8005381
Gogol is much more enjoyable than the trite christposting of those two.
I guess not OP
>>8004735
I can't stop navel gazing for too long, there's a Sean Connery film on about a monk's protege creaming inside of one of the young savage girls.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through , and I'm finding it to be a very comfy, enjoyable read. Especially as someone who once studied Scholastic philosophy intensely, it's just fun.
If you happen to enjoy the elements of Scholastic philosophy found throughout, you should check out Eifelheim. Sure, it's dirty genre fiction but what's not to love about a Catholic priest trying to understand FTL using his knowledge of Aristotle and Augustine?
>>8004735
it was fun but now that he's dead everybody's going to read him
i have a copy of Baudolino on my shelf.
worth a read?
>>8008234
Very much! It's more quixotic adventure than Name Of The Rose, highly enjoyabledat disguised Wittgenstein quote in Name Of The Rose
I've been reading Eco's essays and they're very much hit and miss, lots of stuff on 80s Italy I really don't care about.
Nevertheless, the only Eco I'd stay clear of is Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loanna, it's Eco being nostalgic about his youth, no-one needs that.
>>8008258
Thanks, appreciated.
>>8004735
>wants to get into Umberto Eco
>reads The Name of the Rose and possibly even other fiction works
WHY ARE YOU SUCH A FUCKING BURGER
