By exploring Eco's work and its significance, we hope to inspire further discussion and analysis of the complex relationships between the reader, the text, and the meaning-making process.
Lucia found the slim, pale book in a secondhand shop between an anthology of medieval maps and a faded travel journal. Its cover bore only a title in small type: The Role of the Reader — and beneath it, the name Umberto Eco. She bought it for two euros and the curious weight of not-quite-ownership that came with used books. umberto eco the role of the reader pdf