The Infinity of Lists: From Homer to James Joyce
By Umberto Eco
Quercus £35, 408 pages
FT Bookshop price: £28
You know how you’re going to be feeling post-turkey, don’t you? Listless. So, in the spirit of going through satiety and out the other side, why not reach for Umberto Eco’s The Infinity of Lists, the Thinking Person’s literary equivalent to the Christmas pud: chockful of goodies, dense, dark and (mostly) delicious, studded with obscure, spicy ingredients and likely to make you feel a touch groggy – soaked as it is in heady erudition.
