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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a deep interest in media operations and journalistic ethics
- Fans of Umberto Eco eager to experience his late novelistic style
- Readers who enjoy intellectual suspense and the historical and cultural codes buried in a text
- Thinkers concerned with contemporary issues such as 'post-truth' and information manipulation
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking fast-paced, action-driven genre suspense
- Readers lacking basic background knowledge of modern European history and media history
Reading tips
- Read alongside Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum to understand his enduring themes of conspiracy narrative and intellectual obsession
- Note the many references to real historical events and figures; they are not digressions but the foundation on which the text builds its sense of reality and its irony
- Consider the story's setting against today's information environment shaped by social media and algorithmic recommendation for a deeper appreciation
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Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 一 一九九二年六月六日星期六，早上八点
- 二 一九九二年四月六日星期一
- 三 四月七日星期二
- 四 四月八日星期三
- 五 四月十日星期五
- 六 四月十五日星期三
- 七 四月十五日星期三晚
- 八 四月十七日星期五晚
- 九 四月二十四日星期五
- 一〇 五月三日星期日
- 一一 五月八日星期五
- 一二 五月十一日星期一
- 一三 五月下旬
- 一四 五月二十七日星期三
- 一五 五月二十八日星期四
- 一六 六月六日星期六
- 一七 一九九二年六月六日星期六，正午
- 一八 六月十一日星期四
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About the author
Umberto Eco was an Italian writer, semiotician and philosopher, born in Alessandria in 1932 and died in Milan in 2016; he was a professor at the University of Bologna. He combined the roles of scholar and novelist: his academic works include A Theory of Semiotics, The Open Work and The Limits of Interpretation, which explore signs, texts and the boundaries of interpretation, while his novels are best known for The Name of the Rose, published in 1980, which has been translated into many languages and has won several literary prizes. He later wrote such works as Foucault's Pendulum and The Prague Cemetery, often blending history, mystery and philosophical reflection. In the Chinese-speaking world his books are classified under foreign literature, mystery and philosophy, and twenty-five of his works are included in the collection.
