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From: The Spectator
Date: 20020105
Author:Wright, Thomas

FIVE MORAL PIECES

by Umberto Eco

Secker, 10, pp. 111, ISBN 0436410591 Charles Lamb wrote that no one ever lays down a newspaper without feeling disappointment. Similarly, it is rare that collections of journalism and occasional papers such as this one leave you fully satisfied. If they are interesting, you want to hear the writer's opinions on current affairs. It is also rare that occasional writings transcend their immediate context: only exceptional commentators write news that stays news.

On the evidence of this book, Umberto Eco deserves to be regarded as one of these. Each of his five ...

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