The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English, on varieties of literary and geographic memory, at the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the complete text of the lecture.
“Good news: books will remain indispensable, not only for literature but for any circumstances in which one needs to read carefully, not only in order to receive information but also to speculate and to reflect about it. To read a computer screen is not the same as to read a book. “
Deja vu all over agains html?tid=11&tid=18. I don’t know why it doesn’t come up when you put “Eco” in the LISNews search box, but it comes up on G**gle.
This was previously on LISNews (http://www.lisnews.com/articles/03/11/09/200226.
Re:Deja vu all over again
It does show up when you search for “Umberto,” though. Most curious.
Re:Deja vu all over again
My excuse: I was on my honeymoon the first time around. As far as the search goes, yeah, it’s not so good, some day I’ll work on that.