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Umberto Eco
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects…
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They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then…
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But who are ‘they’? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco’s iconic essay ‘Ur-Fascism’, which…
The author of The Name of the Rose considers a wide range of topics, from Superman and Casablanca , Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and…
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Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century…
A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, the author presents articles, which he writes for his regular column in l'Espresso magazine, that explore many aspects of the modern world such…
Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers.
This striking book shows the world’s most beautiful libraries through Candida Hoefer’s mesmerizing photographs.
No one photographs spaces quite like Candida Hoefer and no one has captured better the majesty…
Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his…
Presents a short essay that appears in English, French, and Italian.
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A collection of essays on the key texts that have shaped the Eco, the novelist and critic. After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, this book examines…
Recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward ugly manifestations. The author reflects on a…
Un manual de uso para los pequenos desafios cotidianos, segun el escritor que cambio la cultura -Corriere della Sera
El mas versatil de los intelectuales italianos combina la cultura de…
An enlightened, spirited exchange that will resonate with believers and nonbelievers alike.
Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows…
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Umberto Eco inedito y urgente.
Eliminar el racismo no significa convencerse de que los otros no son diferentes de nosotros, sino comprender y aceptar su diferencia.
Esta coleccion de charlas…
UMBERTO ECO INEDITO Y VISIONARIO
Un canto de amor a los libros y a su acumulacion obsesiva, por el escritor que cambio la cultura (Corriere della Sera)
Umberto Eco cambio…
Marzo, 1897. Parais. Un hombre de sesenta y siete aanos escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitaciaon abarrotada de muebles: he aquai al capitaan Simonini, un piamontaes afincado en…
En esta conferencia dirigida a los alumnos de una universidad norteamericana en 1995, Umberto Eco alertaba frente a la sombra alargada de un fenaomeno que no se restringe al aambito…
Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic…
La novela emblematica de Umberto Eco. Una trama apasionante. Una admirable reconstruccion del conflictivo siglo XIV
Umberto Eco cambio nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequenos, fragiles, a veces criminales…
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and…
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion…
A collection of Umberto Eco’s essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces published in English. Organized into four main parts, these essays look at…
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto…
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An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of…
Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with…
.. . not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile. –The Review of Metaphysics.. . essential reading for anyone interesting in… the new reader-centered forms of…
Focuses on what the author once called ‘the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation’ - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby…
En l'an de grace et de disgrace 1327, rien ne va plus dans la chretiente. Des bandes d'heretiques sillonnent les royaumes. Lorsque Guillaume de Baskerville, accompagne de son secretaire, arrive…
Focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs - communication and signification - and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of…
this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory. –Times Literary Supplement
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 late seventies, looks back…
In this book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco…
Pourquoi et comment lit-on les romans-feuilletons ? Quels sont les mecanismes de la narration, les astuces et lesficellesdont se sert un auteur pour tenir son lecteur en haleine…
Numero Cero, de Umberto Eco, nos descubre la cara oscura del periodismo y la manera en que nuestra realidad esta en manos de quienes construyen las noticias. Los perdedores y…
The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The…
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential…
This anthology examines Eco’s work within the context of the current debate surrounding the interpretation and production of cultural messages. The contributors include Peter Carravetta, Patrizia Violi, Davide Del Bello…
Prof Umberto Eco
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.
The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.
Will Eisner
Examines the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. This work exposes the…
This collection provides thought-provoking insights into Eco’s contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines (semiotics, popular culture, linguistics, aesthetics, philosophy, medieval studies) as well as his literary production of…
