Limits of Interpretation

<p>Eco's essays read like letters from a friend trying to share something he loves with someone he likes. . . . Read this brilliant enjoyable and possibly revolutionary book. --George J. Leonard San Francisco Review of Books<br /><br /> . . . a wealth of insight and instruction. --J. O. Tate National Review<br /><br />If anyone can make [semiotics] clear it's Professor Eco. . . . Professor Eco's theme deserves respect; language should be used to communicate more easily without literary border guards. --The New York Times<br /><br />The limits of interpretation mark the limits of our world. Umberto Eco's new collection of essays touches deftly on such matters. --Times Literary Supplement<br /><br />It is a careful and challenging collection of essays that broach topics rarely considered with any seriousness by literary theorists. --Diacritics<br /><br />Umberto Eco focuses here on what he once called the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation--that is the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication.</p>