![]() ![]() At first he uses similes: "As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so, as they marched, the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven." But he isn't satisfied. In the "Iliad," he tries to convey an impression of the size of the Greek army. I see this as a literary list, and it says a lot about Bloom. In "Ulysses," James Joyce describes how his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, opens his drawers and all the things he finds in them. SPIEGEL: Accountants make lists, but you also find them in the works of Homer, James Joyce and Thomas Mann.Įco: Yes. My novels, by the way, are full of lists. Think of the nature collections of the 16th century. In fact, there is a dizzying array: lists of saints, armies and medicinal plants, or of treasures and book titles. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. Eco: The list doesn't destroy culture it creates it. ![]()
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