UMBERTO ECO INEDITO Y VISIONARIO

Un canto de amor a los libros y a su acumulacion obsesiva, por el escritor que cambio la cultura (Corriere della Sera)

Umberto Eco cambio nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequenos, fragiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseno a entrelazar la sabiduria y el juego con su estilo sagaz y ludico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez. -Irene Vallejo

El libro es un seguro de vida, una pequena anticipacion de la inmortalidad.

El cerebro humano cuenta, desde el principio de los tiempos, con una memoria organica y otra mineral, grabada en piedras y tabletas de arcilla. Junto a ellas, de forma paralela, se ha desarrollado otra mas profunda, silenciosa y revolucionaria: la memoria vegetal, impresa en papiros y en trapos hasta llegar al papel procedente del arbol que conocemos hoy. Su instrumento de supervivencia es el libro, objeto de amor y devocion durante siglos.

Umberto Eco, el humanista integral , segun Fernando Savater, dedica estos textos ineditos e iluminadores a los bibliofilos como el, a los futuros bibliofilos y a los que todavia no saben que lo son. Un libro para aprender, deslumbrarse, emocionarse y seguir leyendo siempre.

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UMBERTO ECO UNEDITED AND VISIONARY

A song of love for books and their obsessive accumulation, by the writer who changed culture (Corriere della Sera)

‘Umberto Eco changed our view of books: essential, small, fragile, sometimes criminal, almost always saviors. A teacher who taught us to intertwine wisdom and play with his shrewd and playful style, with his amazing inventiveness and accurate lucidity.’ - Irene Vallejo

The book is life insurance, a little anticipation of immortality.

The human brain has, since the beginning of time, an organic and a mineral memory, engraved on stones and clay tablets. Along with them, in a parallel way, a more profound, silent and revolutionary one has developed: plant memory, printed on papyri and rags until it reaches the paper from the tree that we know today. His instrument of survival is the book, an object of love and devotion for centuries.

Umberto Eco, the ‘integral humanist,’ according to Fernando Savater, dedicates these unedited and illuminating texts to bibliophiles like him, to future bibliophiles and to those who still don’t know they are. A book to learn from, be dazzled by, get excited about and to always keep reading.