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3 novembre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pupvd.3224
- isbn: 9782354120542
- eisbn: 9782354122775
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Christian Pentzold, « ‘Make truth laugh’. The Novels of Umberto Eco in the Context of his Thought », Presses universitaires de Perpignan, ID : 10.4000/books.pupvd.3224
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In an interview given in 1975 Umberto Eco announced that he was planning to publish, ‘in twenty years, maybe’, a book on the comic. He justified this undertaking by arguing: ‘Signs and language [...] are no longer attributes exclusive to man. [...] The last remaining difference is laughter. Laughter is a mysterious and metaphysical mechanism’ (Eco in Capozzi 1989: 415). Since Eco is a highly prolific writer, it was not twenty but just five years later that he published The Name of the Rose, t...