Ocupation: Essayist
Life: b. January 5, 1932
Birthday: January 5
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
source: Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press
topic: Sleep, Monsters, Fiction, Complex Relationships