Confessions of a Young Novelist: Echo Reviews Thirty Years of Creative Writing Many Methods 01 Content Introduction 02 Author Profile 03 Original Golden Sentence

Hello readers, the book I'm going to introduce today is Confessions of a Young Novelist.

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Echo's life's reading, research, and creation spanned different languages, eras, and fields.

As one of the world's foremost novelists of the past three decades, he still feels like an amateur — a source of energy and longing that permeates all pages of the book.

This "young" novelist fully confesses his creative world: revelations about artistic fiction, wisdom about the power of words.

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Umberto Eco,born in 1932.

World-renowned semioticians, medieval experts, literary critics and novelists, and one of the few writers who turned profound academic and esoteric works into best-selling books.

The Cambridge History of Italian Literature hails him as the most dazzling Italian writer of the second half of the 20th century and praises his "career-running 'mediator' and 'integrator' consciousness."

Echo's world is vast and diverse, and in addition to essays, essays, and novels, there are numerous essays, treatises, and compilations, including medieval theology studies, aesthetic studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, semiotic studies, and hermeneutic studies, and his works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

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Another question that is often asked is: "When you start writing a book, do you have a rough idea or a detailed plan in your head?" "It was only after writing my third novel that it became clear to me that each of my novels sprouted from a profound, crucial idea, and that it was merely an image.

- Quoted on page 20

But when we truly understand their destiny, we begin to wonder that, as part of living in the here and now, we often run into each other unexpectedly, because the way we think about the world we live in is the same way that fictional characters think about their world. Fiction tells us that perhaps our view of the real world is as imperfect as the fictional characters' view of their world.

- Quoted on page 149

Of all the dizzying lists, the internet-induced dizziness is the most mysterious. It's almost entirely virtual, but actually gives us a range of information that makes us feel rich and omnipotent. The only obstacle is that we don't know which components of it are based on data from the real world and which are not. There is no longer any distinction between truth and error.

- Quoted on page 259