The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco

The Search for the Perfect Language

Umberto Eco

400 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy mysterious slow-paced
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From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an inve...

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