Construir al enemigo

In his prologue, Umberto Eco speaks of these essays as "occasion texts", that is to say, writings that were born from a commission or pure amusement. However, when the person who works in this way is a great teacher, each sentence becomes a gift for the reader. From the piece that gives this book its title, Eco tackles subjects as apparently disparate as the reception of Joyce's Ulysses in Mussolini's Italy and the WikiLeaks case, and personalities as diverse as Dan Brown, Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, and we invites us to reflect on the power of silence in a society in which scandal is commonplace. An exceptional work that constitutes the best example of a privileged intelligence put at the service of those readers who ask of life for something more than newspaper headlines.