If you devote yourself to WeChat every day, your world will be as big as your mobile phone. The so-called insights and chicken soup can only allow us to sit and watch the sky; and observing the private lives of other people makes us trivial and superficial. I have no doubts about the phrase "Heaven is what a library" said by Borges.
◎ carPeople media commentator Liu Weiyi
In an era where wise men fell one after another and fools rushed around, February 19, 2016 was a landmark turning point. A few days ago, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi expressed condolences on the death of a famous writer. He said: "He is an outstanding representative of European intellectuals, who perfectly combines the wisdom of profound knowledge of history with the ability to predict the future. "
The death of Umberto Eco marked the end of the "post-modern" era of intellectuals on February 19, 2016. This writer, who is as well-read as Borges, is well-known for his profound knowledge and dazzling writing. He has novelists, philosophers, historians, linguists, semiotics,publicCommunication researchers, literary critics, university professors and other multiple identitie
If you devote yourself to WeChat every day, your world will be as big as your mobile phone. The so-called insights and chicken soup can only allow us to sit and watch the sky; and observing the private lives of other people makes us trivial and superficial. I have no doubts about the phrase "Heaven is what a library" said by Borges.
◎ carPeople media commentator Liu Weiyi
In an era where wise men fell one after another and fools rushed around, February 19, 2016 was a landmark turning point. A few days ago, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi expressed condolences on the death of a famous writer. He said: "He is an outstanding representative of European intellectuals, who perfectly combines the wisdom of profound knowledge of history with the ability to predict the future. "
The death of Umberto Eco marked the end of the "post-modern" era of intellectuals on February 19, 2016. This writer, who is as well-read as Borges, is well-known for his profound knowledge and dazzling writing. He has novelists, philosophers, historians, linguists, semiotics,publicCommunication researchers, literary critics, university professors and other multiple identities are out-and-out and irreplaceable "students" in the international literary world.
From after World War II to the present, starting with Michel Foucault, to Umberto Eco, these intellectuals played an important social role. They analyzed, deconstructed, and reshaped with unprecedented serious and complex thinking. Western social thought, language, religion, aesthetics, and political structure broke the conservativeness of religious society and inspired a generation of young people to attach importance to diversity and openness. Their works, their voices, their sharp and vivid thoughts and humanities Caring is the precious essence of the whole world.
Reading Eco's novel is not an easy task. On the 25th anniversary of the publication of Eco's masterpiece "Foucault Pendulum" (that is, 2 years ago), in every Italian city, every street, every bookstore has posters as big as his real person, on the subway. There are also many people holding Foucault's pendulum, but most of them "hold it upside down", just like the panda in the safety film before Air China's flight, because they don't understand it. Each of his novels, without exception, involves theology, politics, history, criminology, as well as different ideas such as Aristotle, Aquinas, and Bacon... For example, they are very different. You can't lose weight if you walk for 300 meters easily. Aerobic exercise + strength training can create a beautiful figure. Only works like Eko can improve our reading ability like a godly help.
Compared with academic works such as Principles of Semiotics, Open Works, Interpretation and Over-Interpretation, and The Role of Readers, Chinese readers are more familiar with Eco's literary works. "The Name of the Rose" published in 1980 was his first novel. This novel has not only won the two highest literary awards in Italy and the French literary award, but has also been translated into 35 languages. The total sales volume has already exceeded 16 million copies.
The title of the book is a vocabulary used to indicate symbolic meaning in the Middle Ages, and the story is set in a medieval monastery. A series of bizarre deaths occurred in the monastery, which had been dwarfed by the suspicion of heretics and the personal desires of the monks. A knowledgeable priest is responsible for investigating the truth, but he is involved in a terrible crime... This is a rare detective, philosophical, and historical novel.
Similarly, "Foucault's Pendulum" is also a novel "full of secrets, conspiracies and mysterious organizations". "Foucault's pendulum" is named after French physicist Leon Foucault, a simple device to prove the rotation of the earth. Eco puts the background of the story in Milan in the 1970s, and the whole novel is full of mysticism.
Umberto Eco is another encyclopedic writer after Borges. From Eco, it is not difficult to find Guangbo’s promotion of works: reading poetry, alchemy for language; reading philosophy, let the mind open up the brain; reading history and geography, to achieve the complete knowledge of time and space; listening to music, to listen to the sense of hearing High-quality training; reading popular science to cultivate curiosity about life, animals and plants, and the future; even reading fairy tales and myths, and cultivating your own inspiration from ancient imagination.
Umberto Eco has written more than forty books in his lifetime, and he has been working hard. In 2015, he also published the latest novel "The First Issue". Unfortunately, there is no Chinese translation of this book yet.
As a loyal fan of him, I am convinced that Eco is the deepest urchin in the contemporary world of fiction. He can densely spread the profound things in the text of the novel in a popular way and spread it widely among the public. He is incomparable and irreplaceable.
