How to travel with a salmon & other essays
By: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
Contributors: Weaver, William, 1923-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody.".

These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, 33-function watches, fax machines and cellular phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and - last but definitely not least - the author's own self.

How to Travel with a Salmon gives us Umberto Eco's acute vision of the absurdities of modern life.
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of: Il secondo diario minimo.