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Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Umberto Eco, Italian literary critic and semiotician best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery set in a 14th-century Italian monastery but, in essence, a questioning of ‘truth’ from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary critic, semiotician and philosopher. He wrote novels such as The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Prague Cemetery, as well as many essays on semiotics, literature and culture.
Umberto Eco, (born Jan. 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy—died Feb. 19, 2016, Milan), Italian critic and novelist. He taught in Florence, Milan, and Bologna. In The Open Work (1962), he argued for the fundamentally ambiguous nature of certain types of literature and music.
Feb 29, 2016 · Interview with the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco, author behind the bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’. With great warmth and humour Eco shares how he has always taken pleasure in ...
Umberto Eco has 854 books on Goodreads with 1671013 ratings. Umberto Eco’s most popular book is The Name of the Rose.
Feb 19, 2016 · Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions.
May 21, 2018 · Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and politics.
Jun 29, 2023 · The Italian thinker, who died in 2016, was a professor, a novelist — who wrote, most notably and at one time inescapably, “The Name of the Rose” — a semiotician, a columnist and a...
Feb 21, 2023 · Umberto Eco (b. 1932–d. 2016) was an Italian author and theorist whose contributions to the academic and creative zeitgeists ripple into inter- and multidisciplinary fields including, but not limited to, semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, narrative theory, politics, pop culture, history, and aesthetic theory.
