Six Walks in the Fictional WoodsErudite, wide ranging, and slyly humorous. The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose when he was forty eight years old, yet he believed that everything he had written to that pointfrom treatises on semiotics to essays on mass culturetook the