by Umberto Eco · Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474239454
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«La búsqueda de la lengua perfecta» is Umberto Eco's essay, published by Crítica in paperback (318 pages, in Spanish).
Umberto Eco traces the utopia of a perfect language across two thousand years of European culture: mystical and magical languages, Indo-European, Kabbalah, the projects of Dante and Llull, Esperanto and auxiliary international languages. He asks whether a single vehicular language can coexist with the defence of languages that transmit an age-old tradition.
It belongs to the Biblioteca de Bolsillo de Crítica collection (no. 2), translated from the Italian by María Pons. Original work: «La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea».
For readers interested in linguistics, the history of languages and debates on artificial languages.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
