{"product_id":"libro-de-la-estupidez-a-la-locura","title":"From stupidity to madness","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe posthumous work by Umberto Eco, which the author submitted to the printer a few days before his death, is a selection of articles previously unpublished in Spain, chosen by himself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA succession of small intellectual pleasures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"Umberto Eco changed our perspective on books: essential, small, fragile, sometimes criminal, almost always saviors. A master who taught us to interweave wisdom and play with his astute and playful style, with his astonishing inventiveness and accurate lucidity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrene Vallejo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhen I was young, there was an important difference between being famous and being talked about by everyone. Most wanted to be famous for being the best athlete or the best dancer, but no one liked to be talked about by everyone for being the village cuckold or a low-class whore; in the future, this difference will no longer exist: as long as someone looks at us and talks about us, we will be willing to do anything.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003eThese words are a good example of what \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Stupidity to Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e offers us, a series of articles that Umberto Eco published in the press over fifteen years and personally selected shortly before he passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003eInternational figures, as well as some of Eco's most beloved fictional characters, such as James Bond or the protagonists of some of his favorite comics, appear in these pieces. And once again, there is a nostalgia for the lost past, an ironic reflection on power and its instruments, and a critique of a consumerism that leaves us full of objects and empty of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenius, wisdom, and a sense of humor: there is a bit of everything in this book, a farewell worthy of a great master.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Umberto Eco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43060904919288,"sku":"9789585579866","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/de-la-estupidez-a-la-locura-umberto-eco-896552.jpg?v=1696463307","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/libro-de-la-estupidez-a-la-locura","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}