L’ossessione per la parola scritta in Eco e Pennac: Il Pendolo di Foucault vs. La prosivendola
The Obsession for the Written Word in Eco and Pennac

Summary/Abstract: The present work is a parallelism between Umberto Eco and Daniel Pennac and more precisely two of their novels. Te comparison leads us to the following conclusions: Pennac’s faith that if life is not always a novel, the novel must necessarily contain life, and Eco’s faith that life surpasses the novel most of the times. A parallelism between the two novels seems relevant from the perspective of the tribute paid to the word by the two contemporary writers. Although their styles differ, they both invoke the same purpose of their existence, namely their love for the word and the book. Both writers demonstrate that they are fully grounded in reality and perceive the spirit of the times we live in, but they do not give up their passion for the book and their desire to learn and discover the world, which they try to transfer to their readers too.

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