By Umberto Eco
The no 1 overseas bestseller, from Umberto Eco, writer of The identify of the Rose
"Vintage Eco . . . the publication is a triumph." – New York overview of Books
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot opposed to Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle clergymen with their very own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by means of day and rejoice Black plenty at evening. each kingdom has its personal mystery provider, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule background. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everybody wishes a scapegoat. yet what if, in the back of all of those conspiracies, either genuine and imagined, lay one lone man?
"[Eco] demonstrates once more that his is a voice that compels our attention" – San Francisco Chronicle
"Choreographed by means of a fact that's itself so unusual a novelist desire not often extend on it to supply a wondrous story . . . Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction fact vividly to life." – New York Times
"Classic Eco, with a difference." – Los Angeles Times
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In the poem “Early and Late,” near “Teas and teas,” Stein writes “Tease and tease” (245). In “Decorations,” she writes: “I do not wish to write down what I hear” (186); but ten pages later, in “What Is This,” she writes: “I love conversation. / Do you like it printed. / I like it descriptive. / Not very descriptive. / Not very descriptive. / I like it to come easily / Naturally” (196–97). Perhaps Stein’s “auditory consciousness” led her to wonder about the difference between the sight and the sound of words (independent of a particular voice or even other limiting contexts).
Copiers “know what they want to be and can build it up by little pieces and do again and again. [They] know what they are and see it as a complete thing and make that thing in daily living” (Making, 644). . inventing themselves in daily living and in dressing” (644). In other words, we can grow a self from the parts of us we like, arranging and discarding pieces of ourselves like clothing, but Stein is sure we cannot be comfortable in these borrowed and cobbled robes. People can copy “the repeating that once came out of them in feeling,” copy “others around them,” copy “themselves in their way of talking, sometimes in their loving, often in their way of walking, of moving their hands and shoulders, in their ways of smiling, there have been some and always will be some who copy themselves so in all their living, in their eating and drinking, in every moment of their daily living” (195).
If she’s right about herself, then this method corresponds to the type of resistance I see Stein generating toward the common language of our society. Her doubts and questions undress us, unmake our mask of Americanisms, and force us to try building ourselves again more legitimately. Much of this discussion has had little to do with conversation but much to do with change, with sensing something wrong in the United States, and with Stein’s eventually prescribing a change in our behaviors. The Making of Americans, then, is a history of the making of the nation itself, not its origins as much as its ongoing creation, its self-production in the eyes, by the hands, and as told by the voices of Americans themselves.