The publication of Umberto Eco’s final book has been moved up.
The release was originally slated for publication in May but will now come out tomorrow after the author’s death last week. La Nave di Teseo, a publishing house founded by Eco and other authors concerned about monopolies in Italian publishing, will release the book.
Titled, Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society, the book includes essays previously published in the Italian magazine L’Espresso. The Guardian has more about the book:
“Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe” is the opening line of Canto VII of Inferno, the first part in Dante’s 14th-century poem The Divine Comedy. The line is famous for puzzling translators, with modern academics believing it is a demonic invocation. The title is “sufficiently liquid to characterise the confusion of our times”, according to the blurb on Amazon.
(Via Melville House).