This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains <i>also</i> realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and pri… - Umberto Eco

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This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss tranforms only frogs into princes or also, for example, armadillos).

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About Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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Alternative Names: Umberto Ecco Umberto Eccounstino Humberto Eco Dedalus Umberto Eko Oumperto Eko Eco Umberto U. Eco
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"It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme, by what has been called the "verse according to the ear."... In fiction, the surrounding world provides the constraint. This has nothing to do with realism... A completely unreal world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss; but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss transforms only frogs into princes or also, for example, armadillos)."

"Комунистите твърдят, че религията е опиумът за народите. Вярно е, защото помага да се държат изкъсо поданиците ...
...бих казал, че религията е кокаинът на народите, защото религията е тласкала и тласка хората към войни, към избиване на неверниците и това е така и с християните, и с мюсюлманите, и с другите идолопоклонници, а пък ако преди негрите в Африка се задоволяваха само с кланета помежду си, мисионерите ги покръстиха и ги превърнаха в колониална армия, много подходяща да умира на фронта и да изнасилва бели жени едва-що влязла в града. Човеците никога не причиняват зло с толкова убеденост и ентусиазъм, колкото когато го правят по силата на религиозните си убеждения."
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