Apocalypse Postponed [Import] [Paperback]

Umberto Eco (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006548512
• ISBN-13: 978-0006548515
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,668,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic.

He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays.

He has also written academic texts and children's books.


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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dificil al principio pero excelente al final., December 29, 1998

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Jose Manuel A. Falcon (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives) (Hardcover)

Obviamente no es un libro para cualquier gente de un humor cualquiera. Sin embargo tampoco es totalmente diseñado para un intelectual consumado. El libro viene a ser una nueva muestra del enorme talento y conocimientos de Eco. Amé el analisis que hace sobre el "comic" y sobre el mito de Superman. Leer a este intelectual me ha motivado a estudiar a traves de la lectura, me ha dado herramientas y me he vuelto mas critico.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A little to Italian for this American reader., December 29, 2000

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Shane Tiernan (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives) (Paperback)

I actually read this book quite some time ago but remember being ,for the most part, lost by references to details that were maybe too 'detailed'. I do believe Eco is brilliant but many of the references in the book were to ideas or concepts native to Italy and times before I was alive.

My distaste could be because after _Focault's Pendulum_ I expected so much.