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Umberto Eco


Born
in Alessandria, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
January 05, 1932

Died
February 19, 2016

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Genre
Historical Fiction, Mystery, Philosophy

Influences
Theodor Adorno, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Antonio ...more


Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 695,899 ratings · 33,304 reviews · 855 distinct works • Similar authors
The Name of the Rose
4.14 avg rating — 369,850 ratings — published 1980 — 724 editions
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Foucault’s Pendulum
3.91 avg rating — 70,994 ratings — published 1988 — 311 editions
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History of Beauty
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3.84 avg rating — 62,205 ratings — published 2004 — 72 editions
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The Prague Cemetery
3.50 avg rating — 28,293 ratings — published 2010 — 188 editions
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Baudolino
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3.79 avg rating — 23,915 ratings — published 2000 — 190 editions
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On Ugliness
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3.87 avg rating — 18,765 ratings — published 2007 — 63 editions
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The Island of the Day Before
3.49 avg rating — 15,734 ratings — published 1994 — 173 editions
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Numero zero
3.16 avg rating — 13,441 ratings — published 2015 — 129 editions
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Il fascismo eterno
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Series by Umberto Eco

Misreadings How to Travel With a Salmon...
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How to Travel With a Salmon... Drugie zapiski na pudełku o... Trzecie zapiski na pudełku ...
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A Theory of Semiotics The Role of the Reader: Exp... Semiotics and the Philosoph... The Sign of Three: Dupin, H... Meaning and Mental Represen... The Limits of Interpretation
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Ortaçağ: Barbarlar - Hırist... Ortaçağ: Katedraller - Şöva... Ortaçağ: Şatolar - Tüccarla... Ortaçağ: Keşifler, Ticaret,...
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Felsefe Tarihi : Antik Yuna... Felsefe Tarihi : Hellenizmd... Felsefe Tarihi : Aostalı An... Felsefe Tarihi : Machiavell... Felsefe Tarihi #5 - Aydınla... Da Marx alla nascita delle ... Tra Ottocento e Novecento
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In The Prague Cemetery, a new novel from the Renaissance man who gave us The Name of the Rose, a master forger stokes the flames of conspiracy in...
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“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco
tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
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Polls

May 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985
 
  41 votes, 18.3%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960
 
  38 votes, 17.0%

Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages, 1815
 
  22 votes, 9.8%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856
 
  20 votes, 8.9%

 
  18 votes, 8.0%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980
 
  18 votes, 8.0%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719
 
  17 votes, 7.6%

 
  14 votes, 6.3%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages, 1899
 
  14 votes, 6.3%

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, 1878
 
  10 votes, 4.5%

 
  7 votes, 3.1%

 
  5 votes, 2.2%

224 total votes
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