This book is six lectures given by U. Eco at Harvard University in 1994. Quoted from the publication: U. Eco. Six walks in literary forests. St. Petersburg, 2002. Translation from English by A. Glebovskaya. Pages in square brackets indicate pages for this edition. The notes are the author's, but not all are given here, but only those that contain the judgments of U. Eco. For the figures referred to by the author, see the end of the document.