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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
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A collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
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 are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, lib...
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