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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

Book, Reading, Thinking

"Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Umberto Eco

Reading, Different, Poetic

Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.545, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Umberto Eco

Reading, Mean, Games

"Six Walks in the Fictional Woods". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

Lying, Book, Reading

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

Umberto Eco

Inspiration, Reading, Exercise