Cartons Of Minerva

Umberto Eco is the famous Italian writer, author of the international bestsellers "the name of the rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum", a specialist in semiotics, cultural historian, linguist, winner of major awards. His works have been translated into forty languages. "Cartons of Minerva" — a collection of publications in the Milan magazine "espresso", where Professor since 1985, writes a weekly column. The author says that the title of a book connected with matches "Minerva", which he had at hand, and on the back of those cartons it writes verbatim notes, responding to large and small events in the world.