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Title: Nostalgia
Review: Nostalgia. I'd put nostalgia foremost of the feeling this book leaves the reader with. For some reason, somehow I kind of feel that's Eco's closure at least on this literature front. As for the casual reader, I wouldn't recommend this book, unless the former is patient and willing to follow Eco's own reminiscent descent into a so-typically Italian mind-set and lifestyle surroundings. By no means this book is as introverted, as say, the Island of the Day Before, and it certainly leverages more elements from Foucault's Pendulum than any other of Eco's books. At the end of the day this book asks the reader to quite literally follow Eco to the loft of his youth and past fires and open these dusty old drawers full of brochures and posters from the '50's or the '60s. If you are willing to say 'yes' to that, then please do go ahead and pick up this book. It's a good one everything considered.
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