by Umberto Eco · Editions du Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020053273
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«L'œuvre ouverte» is Umberto Eco's essay on philosophy and literary theory, published by Editions du Seuil in paperback (315 pages, in French).
The essay examines contemporary works conceived as open structures: musical pieces of variable order, mobile sculptures, informal painting, and semantic games. Eco links the concept of the open work to current culture, chance, and information theory, and asks how far a work can open without ceasing to communicate.
Published in the Points Essais collection (no. 107); French translation of «Opera aperta» (1962), by Chantal Roux de Bézieux with the collaboration of André Boucourechliev.
For readers interested in philosophy, semiotics, cultural criticism, and contemporary aesthetics.
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, semiotician and philosopher, one of the great European intellectuals of the 20th century. The Name of the Rose blended medieval mystery and cultural reflection, turning him into a world-class literary voice.
