Umberto Eco

Il nome della rosa è un romanzo scritto da Umberto Eco ed edito per la prima volta da Bompiani nel 1980. Dopo aver pubblicato numerosi saggi, il semiologo decise di scrivere il suo primo romanzo, cimentandosi nel genere del giallo storico e in particolare del giallo deduttivo. Tuttavia il libro può essere considerato …

In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid …

In this exhilarating 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 draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the …

Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as Kant e l'ornitorinco in 1997. An English edition, translated by Alastair McEwen, appeared in 1999. The book develops some aspects of Eco's A Theory of Semiotics which came out in 1976. In the first …

Serendipities: Language and Lunacy is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco. Dealing with the history of linguistics and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language, the material in the book overlaps with La ricerca della lingua perfetta. As Eco explains it in his preface, serendipity is the positive outcome of …

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 …

Il cimitero di Praga è il sesto romanzo di Umberto Eco, pubblicato in Italia da Bompiani il 29 ottobre 2010. Protagonista del romanzo è il capitano Simone Simonini, un falsario estremamente cinico che vive nel XIX secolo. Il romanzo è ambientato tra Parigi, Torino e Palermo e rielabora la storia del Risorgimento con …