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Umberto Eco


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

Died
February 19, 2016

Genre

Influences


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
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Average rating: 3.99 · 745,674 ratings · 37,849 reviews · 947 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Name of the Rose

4.14 avg rating — 393,888 ratings — published 1980 — 131 editions
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Foucault’s Pendulum

3.91 avg rating — 74,694 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions
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History of Beauty

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3.82 avg rating — 67,322 ratings — published 2004 — 78 editions
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The Prague Cemetery

3.51 avg rating — 30,061 ratings — published 2010 — 193 editions
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Baudolino

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3.80 avg rating — 25,299 ratings — published 2000
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On Ugliness

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3.88 avg rating — 19,091 ratings — published 2007 — 69 editions
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The Island of the Day Before

3.49 avg rating — 16,324 ratings — published 1994 — 176 editions
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Numero zero

3.17 avg rating — 14,438 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions
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The Mysterious Flame of Que...

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Il fascismo eterno

4.31 avg rating — 9,376 ratings — published 2020 — 41 editions
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Quotes by Umberto Eco  (?)
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“We live for books.”
Umberto Eco

“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

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

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February 2020 Revisit the Shelf Book

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 352 pages, published 1951
 
  67 votes, 22.9%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 530 pages, published 1980
 
  58 votes, 19.8%

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 258 pages, published 1989
 
  50 votes, 17.1%

Animal Farm by George Orwell 145 pages, published 1945
 
  48 votes, 16.4%

King Lear by William Shakespeare 316 pages, published 1606
 
  36 votes, 12.3%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 256 pages, published in 1902
 
  34 votes, 11.6%

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