Disorientation
Jonathan Coe, 5 October 1995
The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco.
Secker, 513 pp., £16.99, October 1995,0 436 20270 0 Show More
by Umberto Eco.
Secker, 513 pp., £16.99, October 1995,
“... As an example of this kind of text, he cited the James Bond novels. Eco’s approach to Ian Fleming in this book was welcome for its critical gusto and its sense that he had really enjoyed the novels (by a sweet irony, Sean Connery would later take the lead in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film of The Name of the Rose). But he maintained, nonetheless, a ... ”