Umberto Eco
5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016
515 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.
Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
Also published as: Умберто Эко, Umberto Eco (Italia), Eco Umberto, UMBERTO ECO, Umberto (Italia) Eco, Umberto (Coord.) Eco
Most-read books
Il nome della rosa
4.1 · 1980 · 583 want to read
Il pendolo di Foucault
3.9 · 1988 · 260 want to read
Baudolino
3.9 · 2000 · 60 want to read
History Of Beauty
3.4 · 2004 · 63 want to read
Il cimitero di Praga
4.1 · 2010 · 49 want to read
Cómo se hace una tesis
4 · 1977 · 53 want to read
L'isola del giorno prima
3.6 · 1994 · 40 want to read
Six promenades dans les bois du roman et d'ailleurs
1994 · 38 want to read
Comment voyager avec un saumon
3.9 · 1992 · 33 want to read
Art et beauté dans l'esthétique médiévale
4 · 1986 · 34 want to read
On Ugliness
3 · 2007 · 33 want to read
The meaning of meaning
1923 · 30 want to read
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
3.5 · 1986 · 24 want to read
The search for the perfect language
3.7 · 1995 · 24 want to read
Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje
4 · 1983 · 27 want to read
La Misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana
3.5 · 2004 · 19 want to read
Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
4.3 · 1976 · 19 want to read
Vertigine della lista
4 · 2009 · 20 want to read
Opera Aperta
4.5 · 1962 · 17 want to read
Numero Zero
2 · 2013 · 17 want to read
Kant e l'ornitorinco
1997 · 21 want to read
I limiti dell'interpretazione
1990 · 20 want to read
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Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
4.5 · 2007 · 14 want to read
Cinq questions de morale
4.5 · 1997 · 15 want to read