Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- ALSO BY UMBERTO ECO -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- On Some Functions of Literature -- A Reading of the Paradiso -- On the Style of The Communist Manifesto -- The Mists...
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Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- ALSO BY UMBERTO ECO -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- On Some Functions of Literature -- A Reading of the Paradiso -- On the Style of The Communist Manifesto -- The Mists of the Valois -- Wilde: Paradox and Aphorism -- A Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor -- Between La Mancha and Babel -- Borges and My Anxiety of Influence -- On Camporesi: Blood, Body, Life -- On Symbolism -- On Style -- Les Semaphores sous la Pluie -- The Flaws in the Form -- Intertextual Irony and Levels of Reading -- The Poetics and Us -- The American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations -- The Power of Falsehood -- How I Write -- Back Matter -- Acknowledgments
