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Misreadings – Umberto Eco

// March 6th, 2007 // books, reading, review

I like Umberto Eco. Though I havent read everything he has written, I have read Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, Baudolino, and the Island of the Day Before. This is small collection of short stories written in newspapers and magazines, collected over the years. It almost looked as if it was churned out – out of spite. Anyway, the fact that I could get my hands on something penned by Eco which isnt convoluted & deceptively intertwined but still is great was amazing. It has the zing, I have to admit there are a couple of short stories that seemed below standard were written for a different set of audience. Or it may very possibly be a classical case of Lost in Translation. Since Umberto Eco writes, generally in Italian, and whatever I have sampled so far has always been a William Weaver translation, may be another’s translation style just didnt sink in. It is Eco, was thrilled. Read it with great delight.