“People revel in enumerations for the most diverse and numerous reasons,” Umberto Eco notes, and he himself enthusiastically indulges in reflections on the essence of this eternal desire for ordering. Lists of names and things, collections and cabinets of curiosities, catalogs, paintings with an immense accumulation of details, musical rhythm…
It is amazing that lists can be seen everywhere, in many forms of art! You can enjoy the poetics of the list not only by reading a literary anthology that complements the author’s text, but also by looking at magnificent illustrations showing how the images of visual sequences change over time.
Slovo, 408 p.