{"product_id":"9780547577609","title":"Inventing the Enemy: Essays","description":"“Underscores the writer’s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion  for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . .  Eco’s pleasure in such  explorations is obvious and contagious.” — \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInventing the Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e  covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured  over the past ten years: from a disquisition on the theme that runs  through his recent novel \u003ci\u003eThe Prague Cemetery\u003c\/i\u003e — every country  needs an enemy, and if it doesn’t have one, must invent it — to a  discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the  process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms,  and the medieval world); from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003eby  fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of Saint  Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to  censorship and violence and WikiLeaks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are essays full of  passion, curiosity, and obsession by one of the world’s most esteemed  scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“True  wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a  writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human.” — \u003ci\u003eBuffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought provoking . . . nuanced . . . the collection amply shows off Eco's sophisticated, agile mind.\" —\u003ci\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182109507824,"sku":"9780547577609","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547577609_p0.jpg?v=1769916036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547577609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}