Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

First edition
Author	Umberto Eco
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Linguistics
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	1994
Pages	153 pp.
ISBN	0-674-81050-3
OCLC	29184587
Dewey Decimal	808.3 20
LC Class	PN3355 .E28 1994

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a non-fiction book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1992 and 1993, the six lectures were published in the fall of 1994.

Overview

The book derives its title from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium but Eco also cites Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler as inspiration because the novel "is concerned with the presence of the reader in the story", which was also the subject of the lectures and book.

Eco's general concerns, besides that of literary criticism, fall under the subjects of techniques of fiction and narration or rhetoric.

Table of contents

1. "Entering the Woods"
2. "The Woods of Loisy"
3. "Lingering in the Woods"
4. "Possible Woods"
5. "The Strange Case of Rue Servandon"
6. "Fictional Protocols"

External links

• Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-81051-1

See also

• Italo Calvino
• Protocols of the Elders of Zion