Description: Borges, Calvino, and Eco are as noted for the intriguing philosophical puzzles they present as they are for their inventive literary styles. In their writings, sequences of causality are reversed, individuals switch identities, and stories of one person mirror those of others. Only Eco was trained in philosophy, but all three authors share a distinctive fascination with areas of philosophy rarely broached in fiction -- epistemology, metaphysics and logic. The distinguished contibutors explore and debate the relationship between philosophy and literature in the works of these brilliant figures.

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