num_pages: 222
description: Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for the past ten years from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel The Prague Cemetery every country needs an enemy and if it doesnt have one must invent itto a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels. Along the way he takes us on an exploration of lost islands mythical realms and the medieval world. Eco also sheds light on the indignant reviews of James Joyces Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s and provides a lively examination of Saint Thomas Aquinass notions about the soul of an unborn child censorship violence and WikiLeaks. These are essays full of passion curiosity and obsessions by one of the worlds most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed best-selling novelists.
language: English
title: Inventing the Enemy: Essays
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt