This collection of essays can be seen as a natural continuation of “Six Walks in the Literary Woods.” Eco talks with the general public about the role of literature, about his favorite authors (here are Aristotle, Dante, as well as Nerval, Joyce, Borges), about the influence of certain texts on the development of historical events, about important narrative and stylistic devices, about key concepts literary creativity. Illustrating his reasoning with vivid examples from classical works, Eco turns semiotic analysis into an easy and fascinating journey through the universe of fiction.