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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 · 745,683 ratings · 37,849 reviews · 947 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Name of the Rose

4.14 avg rating — 393,891 ratings — published 1980 — 131 editions
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Foucault’s Pendulum

3.91 avg rating — 74,693 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 — 25,300 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 — 14,439 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 — 9,377 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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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (pub. 1814 pp. 507, last read Jan 2012)
 
  82 votes, 25.0%


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  63 votes, 19.2%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (pub. 1980 pp. 536, last read June 2016)
 
  51 votes, 15.5%

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (pub. 1979 pp. 260, last read Feb . 2018)
 
  50 votes, 15.2%

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  37 votes, 11.3%

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