The Infinity of Lists
First edition (publ. Bompiani)
The Infinity of Lists is a book by Umberto Eco on the topic of lists (2009) ISBN 978-0847832965. The title of the original Italian edition was La Vertigine della Lista (The Vertigo of Lists) (2009) ISBN 978-8845263453. It was produced in collaboration with the Louvre.[1]
The examples of lists in the work range from Hesiod's list of the progeny of gods to Rabelais' list of bottom wipes.[1]
Reception
Financial Times writer, Simon Schama, described the book (in list form) as a delight: "profuse, plethoric, prolix, plentiful, playful, populous, picaresque, picturesque; copious, cornucopian, congested, clotted; incontinent, infested, infectious; omnivorous, orgiastic, odd; abundant, redundant; multifarious, multitudinous; glutted, gargantuan, inclusive, elusive, and...exhaustive." However, Schama also described it as exasperating: "If its pleasures easily overwhelm its irritants, that's because the book has the charm of extreme greed."[1]
See also
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- The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
- Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
- The Open Work
- Misreadings
- Apocalypse Postponed
- The Middle Ages of James Joyce
- The Absent Structure
- Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- A Theory of Semiotics
- Il Superuomo di massa
- Dalla periferia dell'impero
- Lector in fabula
- The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
- Sette anni di desiderio
- Postscript to The Name of the Rose
- Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
- De Bibliotheca
- The Limits of Interpretation
- Interpretation and Overinterpretation
- The Search for the Perfect Language
- Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
- Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre
- Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue
- Five Moral Pieces
- Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
- Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
- How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
- Experiences in Translation
- On Literature
- Mouse or Rat?: Translation as negotiation
- Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
- On Beauty/History of Beauty
- On Ugliness
- Dall'albero al labirinto: studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione
- The Infinity of Lists
- Confessions of a Young Novelist
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- Come si fa una tesi di laurea
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- The Bomb and the General
- The Three Astronauts
- The Gnomes of Gnu
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