Umberto eco

Umberto Eco, a philosopher who wrote best-selling novels including The Name of the Rose, died on February 19 2016, aged 84.

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The first time I called Umberto Eco, he was sitting at his desk in his seventeenth-century manor in the hills outside Urbino, near the Adriatic coast of Italy. He sang the virtues of his bellissima swimming pool, but suspected I might have trouble negotiating the region’s tortuous mo...

"The world is full of precious books that nobody reads” ― Eco Umberto "Eco began his career as a scholar of medieval studies and semiotics. Then, in 1980, at the age of forty-eight, he published a novel, The Name of the Rose. It became an international publishing sensation, selling more than ten million copies. The professor metamorphosed into a literary star." Know more about Umberto Eco's work and life with this interview by Lila Azam Zanganeh for The Paris Review.

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One of the new things I'm going to do this year is host some Guest Blogs. Thus far, you have only heard about books on here from my perspective. But I have a lot of incredibly insightful friends whose thoughts I want to share with you as well! And I'm excited to begin with my good friend, Andrew Shaughnessy: I’m not quite sure what I was thinking when I agreed to write about Umberto Eco when Amy asked me to write a guest post for her blog. I have so much to say, too much to say, in fact. Eco…

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.” Umberto Eco, Italian, writer