The Open Work Quotes

“Opera aperta is a polemical book, in marked conflict with the Crocean aesthetics that dominated the Italian academic world in the early sixties.”
― Umberto Eco, The Open Work

“Opera aperta (The open work), published in 1962, the first of Eco's books on a modern topic and the work with which he made his name in Italy.”
― Umberto Eco, The Open Work

“Umberto Eco's first published book was the dissertation he wrote at the University of Turin, on problems of aesthetics in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
― Umberto Eco, The Open Work