Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) - Umberto Eco

Written by Umberto Eco
Read by Nick Sullivan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 10-13-11

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist’s techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction’s most basic mechanisms.

“This is a book to celebrate. The late Umberto Eco was a brilliant scholar and a superb novelist. This book, a series of lectures he gave on literature, is a treat for the mind. Eco gives the reader/listener tremendous insight into what makes great literature great, why we return to novels over and over despite knowing what happens. As I listened to Eco I thought about my own parallels with great novels, and why they taught me something new each time I read them. This is a book to savor. And I look forward to listening to this book many times in the future, because it will be like being in a great literary salon with a giant of literature.”