Summary
Umberto Eco: How I Traveled with Salmon
In this collection of parodies, satires and playful essays written over the past thirty years, Umberto Eco takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the absurdities of modern life.
This book can be seen as a collection of unusual instructions given by the master for unusual situations: how to survive bureaucratic tangles, how to avoid infectious diseases, how to eat on a plane, how to travel with salmon, but also how to choose the right profession, as well as many other (un)ordinary dilemmas. The author guides us through the forest of our time, aware that life flows mainly between small things, random encounters, small problems, and not between Hamlet's dilemmas and questions about existence, which occupy only a fraction of our time, although they are the only thing that is fundamentally important.
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