Umberto Eco, Lost (and Found) in Translation

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK: HOT WARS AND MEDIA POPULISM
By Umberto Eco
Harcourt, 369 pages, $27

Umberto Eco, the Italian medievalist, novelist and semiotician—“generalist,” if I may be so crude—has spent some time of late thinking about, and through, translation. Successful translation, he argued in Mouse or Rat? (2004), is a matter Read More