Nabrosok novogo kota i drugie neser'eznye veshchi - Eko U.

It is first published in Russian language!
Sparkling humor, subtle irony and light language - the unexpected Umberto Eco makes the reader laugh to tears!
.SLOVO/SLOVO Publishing continues the series of journalism of the famous writer Umberto Eco. In 2018, the best-selling book "How to Travel with Salmon," "Growing Memory," "Superman for the Masses" was released. In 2019, several more books published in the Russian language by Umberto Eco will appear in the series.
Umberto Eco's original irony and subtle sense of humor are reflected in the parody essays collected in the book Sketch of the New Cat and other non-serious things. A short diary" (in Italy it was published under the name Diario minimo). These "notes on the malice of the day," various pastiche syletings and parodies of literary works Eco published for three years in the Italian magazine Il Verri.
Some of these parody essays were lucky to please readers, and as a result were included in the school textbooks (in particular, "Praise of Franti") or dispersed to quotations. Others have been redesigned for theater, and others (as I was told) have benefited scientists in various fields of science, making them look with reasonable doubt at things that are sometimes done seriously. The last circumstance makes me very happy, because one of the most important and noble functions of non-serious things is to cause a certain distrust of things too serious. This is the serious task of parody.

.Umberto Eco (1932-2016) - philosopher, specialist in semiotics and medieval aesthetics, cultural scientist, publicist, critic. Author of novels The Name of the Rose, The Pendulum of Foucault, Island the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of the queen of Loana, scientific and non-fiction works History of Beauty, History of Ugliness, History of Illusions, Vertigo, Open Work, Treatise on General Semiotics, And Semiotics philosophy of language, Six walks in the literary woods, Say almost the same and many others. Umberto Eco's novels and research have been translated into many languages and have become bestsellers around the world.