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Umberto Eco


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

Died
February 19, 2016

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: 3.99 · 779,596 ratings · 41,331 reviews · 936 distinct works • Similar authors
The Name of the Rose
4.14 avg rating — 409,999 ratings — published 1980 — 743 editions
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Foucault’s Pendulum
3.91 avg rating — 77,041 ratings — published 1988 — 326 editions
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History of Beauty
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3.82 avg rating — 70,458 ratings — published 2004 — 80 editions
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The Prague Cemetery
3.52 avg rating — 31,253 ratings — published 2010 — 195 editions
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Baudolino
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3.81 avg rating — 26,269 ratings — published 2000 — 204 editions
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On Ugliness
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3.89 avg rating — 20,366 ratings — published 2007 — 76 editions
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The Island of the Day Before
3.50 avg rating — 16,725 ratings — published 1994 — 178 editions
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Numero zero
3.17 avg rating — 15,062 ratings — published 2015 — 137 editions
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Il fascismo eterno
4.31 avg rating — 11,009 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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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
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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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