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Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris; First Edition, 1st Printing edition (November 5, 2013)
I wish Eco's books had indexes....they are so rich with information and ideas that this would allow us to find things we vaguely remember so much faster. With that minor fault out of the way, I have to say that I LOVE this book. It treats a topic I've always had an interest in...and does it with sumptuous illustrations. I have several of his other books...including the Book of Lists and On Beauty and On Ugliness.....If I could have one famous person over for dinner, I think Umberto would be the one I'd invite!
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21 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Umberto Eco managed to write a book which is fully equal to similar already existing works such as "The Atlas of Legendary Lands" or "Lost Lands, Forgotten Realms". Very convincing the selection of images: There are several we did not know, yet. From an aesthetic point of view a really beautiful book! And very convincing, too, the textual elaboration.
On the basis of Atlantis for example we see clearly that Umberto Eco did not just copy what others repeated already a thousand times. Rather did Umberto Eco find even in this controversial issue his own convincing path.
In detail on this example: For Eco, the history of the various Atlantis localizations is not - as so often - a menacing climax with National Socialism as culmination (wagging forefinger!). It is rather a journey through history with National Socialism as one stop of several. Olof Rudbeck, too, is no crackpot "baroque Nazi" for Eco but a serious baroque scholar, who just erred. Someone like Umberto Eco knows how to place these things properly, of course. In the video for the book the connection of Hyperborea (astonishingly not: Atlantis) to the Holocaust is drawn too closely: as if someone who reads and thinks about the ancient Hyperborea (resp. Atlantis) would become a National Socialist ... well, it is only the video, therefore let's forget it.
Let us leave the vexed and vain NS topic and come to Atlantis itself: Already in his "Foucault's Pendulum" Eco was pleasently reserved concerning Atlantis - this applies here, too. The Atlantis map of the baroque scholar Athanasius Kircher is called correctly a map of the "site" of Atlantis, not as a map which allegedly displays the exact shape of Atlantis.Read more ›
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Eco has another fascinating mix of his own ideas, texts from antiquity, and well-chosen illustrations. Great humour just below the surface from time to time as well. Seeing his knowledge of sources also explains how, for example, he creates believable and bizarre fictional worlds as well, such as that of Baudolino. Another great book.
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Eco excites the senses with this world survey or legends and dreams of other worlds found in literature and sacred texts. Humans have imagined the world in terms of fantasies beyond the sounds and sights we encounter. The glories of perfection and the horrors of damnation are recreated in the literature of all cultures. To name the location of these legends, ideas, and associations presents a remarkable understanding of their importance and influence on beliefs and actions of people. The Book of Legendary Lands serves as an excellent tool for readers of history,philosophy, art, religion, and geography. Practitioners of psychology, sociology, and all religions may also gain an understanding of the human mind and society. Of particular interest is the constancy of dystopia in so many cultures, and how humans construct ideas of the damned to perpetuate--- or challenge evil. The visual adventure of woodcuts, paintings, architecture, and maps empower the reader to comprehend the fantasies and ideals perpetuated in legends.
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Umberto Eco never disappoints. This is a wonderful review of all the depictions of how people have perceived the world around them in reading great myths, sagas, epics and adventures. Maps, paintings, etchings, engravings, drawings and writings show the gradual evolution of the visual aspects of human imagination.
The illustrations alone can keep one happy for hours. The writing is as bright and illuminating as Eco's best. He seldom wastes words and can never be accused of verbosity. Always to the point, yet capable of beautiful speculative side tracks, he keeps one's thoughts amused,stimulated and sometimes surprised. There were quite a few "I never knew that" moments for me, but then my own is far removed from Eco's erudition. This is the kind of book that lightens the weight of Winter afternoons or dismal nights. A joy to read, it is also a wonderful reference for those conversations that flounder on vague recollections of epic events in literature and life.
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Outstanding account of what humankind believed or longed about gods, kings, pleasures, punishments. Who is aware of Cockaine land, where pigs fly, already roasted and with a knife on their back, just to make it easy to dine?
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Latest install ment to the series which began with the History of Beauty, On Ugliness, and An Infinity of Lists. I've read them all. Erudite commentary preambling source material (in translation--I'm not that smart). Illustrations alone are worth the price.
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