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Novelist and scholar Eco (The Name of the Rose; Foucault’s Pendulum) possesses an inquisitive mind and a glistening style, and he loves to upset apple carts, all of which makes him an ideal writer of essays like these, which cover such topics as nations’ need for enemies, Victor Hugo’s style of excess, fascist critiques of Ulysses, the imagery of fire, Thomas Aquinas’s position on fetuses, and imaginary geography and astronomy. Only one piece fails (...Log In or Sign Up to Read More