by Umberto Eco
MISREADINGS spend four complex words--dolce colore d'oriental zaffiro--where it would have been so much more immediate and comprehensible to use the corre- sponding Chinese ideogram?" 1962 180
OTHER BOOKS BY UMBERTO E�O PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH The Name of the Rose (1983) Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1984) Travels in Hyperreality (1986) Foucault's Pendulum (1989) For children, with Eugenio Carmh The Bomb and the General (1989) The Three Astronauts (1989) PUBLISHED BY INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS A Theory of Semiotics (1976) The Role of the Reader (1979) Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984) PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY P/mss Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1986) PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PPmss The Aesthetics of Aquinas (1988) The Open Work (1989) The Aesthetics of Chaosmos (1989)