Confessions of a Young Novelist (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions, the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfictionplayfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted