Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a book based on a series of lectures written by Umberto Eco for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. Eco delivered the lectures in the fall of 1994 and the book was published in 1995. The lectures derive their title from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium but Eco also cites Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler as inspiration as the novel "is concerned with the presence of the reader in the story", which to a large extent is also the focus of his lectures.