Die Unendliche Liste by Umberto Eco
A concise cultural and literary investigation into humanity’s obsession with lists, showing how cataloguing and enumeration recur in myth, religion, literature, and art as a way to order knowledge, to summon the infinite, and to produce comic or sublime effects. Drawing on historical and literary examples—from ancient inventories and biblical genealogies to encyclopedic projects and modern experimental works—it argues that lists both express a desire for control and expose the impossibility of totality, turning enumeration into a device that contains and yet provokes the imagination.
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- Die Unendliche Liste
- La vertigine della lista
- The Infinity of Lists
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