Umberto Eco

Rosens namn, är Umberto Ecos debutroman, utgiven på italienska 1980, på svenska 1983. Rosens namn kan sägas vara på samma gång en filosofilektion, religionshistorisk genomgång, deckare och språkkurs. Den väckte stor uppmärksamhet när den kom, inte minst eftersom den kan uppfattas som en allegori, men frågan är över …

Foucaults pendel är en roman av den italienske författaren Umberto Eco.

Baudolino är en roman av den italienske författaren Umberto Eco som publicerades 2000. I romanen låter Eco bokens huvudperson, Baudolino, berätta om sina äventyr genom medeltidens och kristendomens Europa och den mytologiska, föga välkända världen så som den beskrivs i medeltidens litteratur. Liksom i tidigare romaner …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Prague Cemetery is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since The Name of the Rose.

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of …