Sure, here is the translation of "" to English: "Novel Forest"

Author: Umberto Eco
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: "Come walk with me, let us pass through this juicy, leafy forest of narrative." With our companion or guide, Umberto Eco, who could refuse such an invitation? In this delightful book, we will explore with him the complexity and paradoxes of the novel form and technique. Using the skills of a novelist, Eco lures us into his world, making us his collaborators as we create his text or investigate some of the basic mechanisms of the novel. How does a text signal its ideal readers? How does it, through its style and voice, find its place on stage for the author? What is the relationship between the "model reader" and the "model author"? How does narrative lead us step by step into its unfathomable space? Eco transforms the dry, daunting semiotics and narratology into an intellectual game and a joy of knowledge, generously sharing with us the secrets of his life as a reader—from fairy tales to Flaubert, from Edgar Allan Poe to Manzoni, from Joyce to Proust, from Ian Fleming to Mickey Spillane and Casablanca, and of course, one of his favorite texts—Nerval's Sylvie, whose reading range is astonishing. As a renowned "model author" and an enthusiastic "model reader," he tells us how much he loves the novel, how he repeatedly gets lost in the forest of narrative, and that to become a citizen of honor, we must be experienced and perceptive readers.