Umberto Eco

In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt …

In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. He can remember every book he ever read but nothing about his own life. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws into his old family home and searches through boxes of old …

The Island of the Day Before is a historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th-century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman marooned on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a …

Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a young man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. Baudolino was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a number of particular difficulties in translation, not the least of which is …

Foucaultovo nihalo ali tudi Foucaultevo nihalo je roman Umberta Eca, ki je prvič izšel leta 1988 pri založbi Bompiani. Slovenski prevod Vasje Bratina je izšel leta 2005 pri založbi Mladinska knjiga.

Ime rože je zgodovinski roman iz leta 1980, ki ga je napisal Umberto Eco. Zgodba je postavljena v srednjeveški samostan v 13. stoletju, kamor glavni lik, frančiškan Viljem iz Baskervilla in njegov učenec Adson prideta preiskovat serijo nepojasnjenih smrti. Kmalu naletita na globljo zaroto, v katero se vpletejo tudi …