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The Search for the Perfect Language

[Paperback]

by Umberto Eco

Author
Umberto Eco
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Fontana Press
Published
July 1997

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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 investigation into the history of this idea.