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From the author of dense novels such as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, “Misreadings” is a brilliantly written collection of delightful parodies, from an essay on stripping to Nabokov's Lolita, from man's first walk on the moon to Homer's first Homeric book that arrives at a publishing house and is supposedly rejected by the editor, “There was a deeper reason for my adoption of the simile,” Eco says of these satires and parables on subjects ranging from the famous works of Marcel Proust to those of Dante, which were originally written for the Italian magazine Il Verri. “If neo-avant-garde work has the characteristic of inverting the language of everyday life and literature, the comic and the grotesque should also be part of this program.