Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity and wisdom written in his uniquely ironic voice.

Written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l’Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition, incisiveness and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, unbridled individualism, conspiracies, the old and the young, mobile phones, mass media, racism, good manners and the crisis in ideological values. It is a final gift to his readers – astute, witty and illuminating.

Umberto Eco a fost un superstar cultural international. Un eseist celebru, precum si romancier, in aceasta, ultima sa colectie, exploreaza multe aspecte ale lumii moderne cu curiozitate irepresionabila si intelepciune scrise in vocea sa ironica unica. Scris de Eco ca articole pentru rubrica sa obisnuita din revista L'Espresso, el aduce eruditia orbitoare, incisivitatea si simtul acut al cotidianului pe teme precum cultura si politica populara, individualismul neinfranat, conspiratiile, batranii si tinerii, telefoanele mobile, mass-media, rasismul, bunele maniere si criza ideologica valori.