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In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his...
Roman
Daß er in den Mauern der prächtigen Benediktinerabtei an den Hängen des Apennin das Echo eines verschollenen Lachens hören würde, das hell und kl...
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective...
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to...
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story...
The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date mer...
Essays
This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes...
The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied t...
Pada tahun 1992, Colonna ditawari honor menggiurkan untuk menulis sebuah memoar. Subjeknya, Braggadocio, yakin bahwa mayat Mussolini adalah tubuh gand...
How has the Western world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is me...
An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Bau...
A Confrontation
One is the beloved author of The Name of the Rose, a celebrated scholar, philosopher, and self-declared secularist; the other is a preeminent clergyma...
In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languag...
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A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times)....
Hot Wars and Media Populism
The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and th...
A collection of essays from Italian novelist Umberto Eco on a wide range of topics....
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader—his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the n...
A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco...
The wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose—now published in English for the fir...
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his lat...
" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criti...
In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas...
How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ...
This book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits o...
and Other Essays
'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year ol...
An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been t...
"Nobody photographs libraries, those splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge, as beautifully as Candida Hofer. Her photographs are sober and res...
After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has...
roman
L'anti Robinson Cruso?ď¸ Un roman dans lequel Eco le linguiste vient prtĚŠer main forte ̉Eco le romancier. Le hĹ™os est un intellectuel, fils de hob...
A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac
'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether ...
Umberto Eco nos comenta la Historia de la Belleza, en un libro profusamente ilustrado, desde la noche de los tiempos hasta nuestros dĂas. ÂżQuĂ© es l...
A Novel
A self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this “comic and brilliantly baffling” historical novel by the author of The Name of ...
"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collec...
The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of t...
Essays on Language and Cognition
How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relatio...
Language and Lunacy
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by sc...
Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected t...