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An edition of Comment voyager avec un saumon (1992)

How to travel with a salmon & other essays

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  • 8 Have read

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, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, 33-function watches, fax machines and cellular phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and - last but definitely not least - the author's own self.

How to Travel with a Salmon gives us Umberto Eco's acute vision of the absurdities of modern life.

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Harcourt, Brace
Language
English
Pages
248

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Subjects

Italian essays, Translations into English, Essays, 18.29 Italian literature, Italian literature, Moeurs et coutumes, [études diverses], Satire sociale, Essais (Genre littéraire), Études diverses, Essays (single author), Fiction, General

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How to travel with a salmon & other essays
1994, Harcourt, Brace
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How to travel with a salmon & other essays
1994, Harcourt, Brace
in English - 1st ed.
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How to travel with a salmon & other essays
1994, Harcourt, Brace
in English - 1st ed.
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How to travel with a salmon and other essays
1994, Secker & W.
in English
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Secondo diario minimo
1992, Bompiani
in Italian - 1. ed. Bompiani.

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Table of Contents

How to travel with a salmon
How to replace a driver's license
How to eat in flight
How to go through customs
How to travel on American trains
How to take intelligent vacations
How to use the taxi driver
How not to talk about soccer
How to use the coffeepot from hell
How to react to familiar faces
How to be a TV host
How not to know the time
Stars and stripes
Conversation in Babylon
On the impossibility of drawing a map of the empire on a scale of 1 to 1
How to eat ice cream
How it begins, and how it ends
How to justify a private library
How to compile an inventory
How to spend time
How to buy gadgets
How to follow instructions
How to become a Knight of Malta
How to deal with telegrams
How not to use the fax machine
How not to use the cellular phone
Three owls on a chest of drawers
Editorial revision
Sequels
How to use suspension points
How to write an introduction
How to write an introduction in an art catalogue
How to set the record straight
How to watch out for widows
How to organize a public library
How to speak of animals
How to play Indians
How to recognize a porn movie
How to avoid contagious diseases
How to choose a remunerative profession
The miracle of San Baudolino.

Edition Notes

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Translation of: Il secondo diario minimo.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
854/.912
Library of Congress
PQ4865.C6 A28 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 248 p. :
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24764631M
ISBN 10
0151001367, 015600125X
ISBN 13
9780151001361, 9780156001250
LCCN
94010340
OCLC/WorldCat
30158558

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