The Empire of Signs
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
Published: November 1983
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780809015023
Subjects: Japan; Philosophy; Civilization
First sentence: If I want to imagine a fictive nation, I can give it an invented name, treat it declaratively as a novelistic object, create a new Garabagne, so as to compromise no real country by my fantasy (though it is then that fantasy itself I compromise by the signs of literature).