“Fear prophets... and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
— Umberto Eco, “The Name of the Rose”
Umberto Eco distrusted absolute truth.
He stood instead for a world in which many voices, and many readings, could coexist.
This line belongs to that conviction:
It asks us to choose not truth in its madness but doubt in its humility.
Are we, in fact, ready to listen to many voices?
Each month, one book, and one sentence from it that stayed with us.
Yujin Hong is an acquiring editor and the head of Epike. A former planning director at Open Books, she conceived and published “The Open Books 35th Anniversary World Literature Short Fiction Set,” “Korean Poetry First Editions: The Centennial Collection” and “Mono Edition.”
