Book Review: Inventing The Enemy
I would like to make it clear straightaway that in talking about imaginary geographies and astronomies I will not be dealing with astrology.Inventing the enemy covers a wide array of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years. The pieces included range from the discussion of ideas that inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel, The Prague Cemetery, that every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn't have one, must invent it. Eco's lively new collection examines topics as diverse as St Thomas Aquinas's notions about the soul of an unborn child, indignant reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, censorship, violence and Wikileaks.
These collection of thoughtful essays are interesting, passionate and appeal to the reader interested in scholarly views on the mundane and the extraordinary aspects in our lives . Lucid language and clarity of the expressed thoughts make these essays a delight for the reader. With topics ranging from Inventing the Enemy to Censorship and Silence, and Thought on WikiLeaks, this book deserves to be in the reading list of a non fiction enthusiast.
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Inventing The Enemy: Thoughtful and Interesting. I had received the review copy from Random House India. Thank you Random House India for giving me this opportunity. You can buy this book at amazon or at Flipkart in case you live in India.
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