Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novels and essays.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Name of the Rose (1983) (Il nome della rosa, 1980) — A philosophical detective novel in a medieval setting;

::See also Postscript to "The Name of the Rose" for background to the novel.

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::A film of this book was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman, F. Murray Abraham and Michael Lonsdale.

Related Topics:
Film - Jean-Jacques Annaud - Sean Connery - Christian Slater - Ron Perlman - F. Murray Abraham - Michael Lonsdale

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• Foucault's Pendulum (1989) (Il pendolo di Foucault, 1988) — A present day conspiracy theory novel (see also Abulafia);
• The Island of the Day Before (1995) (L'isola del giorno prima, 1994) — A novel about a 17th century nobleman marooned across the international date line;
• Baudolino (2002) (Baudolino, 2000) — A novel about a young peasant adopted by emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, and his adventures;
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005) (La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana, 2004). An illustrated novel about a man who loses his memory after a stroke.

Books on philosophy

Areas of philosophy Eco has written most about include semiotics, linguistics, aesthetics and morality.

Related Topics:
Semiotics - Linguistics - Aesthetics - Morality

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• "The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas" (1988, Revised) (Il problema estetico in San Tommaso, 1956)
• "Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages" (1985) ("Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale" in "Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica", 1959)
• "The Open Work" (1989) (from the 1976 edition of Opera Aperta, 1962, with other essays added).
• "Misreadings" (1993) (Diario minimo,1963)
• "Apocalypse Postponed" (1994) (Apocalittici e integrati, 1964; partial translation, with other texts added)
• "The Middle Ages of James Joyce" (AKA The Aesthetics of Chaosmos) (1989) (Le poetiche di Joyce, 1965)
• "Travels in Hyperreality" (AKA Faith in Fakes) (1986) (Il costume di casa, 1973, Dalla periferia dell'impero, 1977, Sette anni di desiderio, 1983)
• "A Theory of Semiotics" (1976) (Original English version of Trattato di semiotica generale, 1975)
• "The Role of the Reader : Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts" (1979) (Containing essays from Opera aperta (1962), Apocalittici e integrati (1964), Forme del contenuto (1971), Il Superuomo di massa (1976), Lector in Fabula (1979)).
• "Postscript to The Name of the Rose" (1984) (Postille al nome della rosa 1983)
• "Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language" (1984) (Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio, 1984)
• "The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)" (1990) (I limiti dell'interpretazione, 1990)
• "How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays" (1998) (Partial translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
• "Interpretation and Overinterpretation" (1992)(with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; Edited by S.Collini)
• "The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)" (1995) (La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea, 1993) on auxiliary and philosophical languages.
• "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods" (1994)
• "Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre (1996) (in Italian, English, French)
• "Belief or Nonbelief? : A Dialogue" (2000) (In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini), 1996).
• "Five Moral Pieces" (2001) (Cinque scritti morali, 1997)
• "" (1999) (Kant e l’ornitorinco, 1997)
• "Serendipities : Language and Lunacy" (1998)
• "Experiences in Translation" (2000)
• "Mouse or Rat? : Translation as negotiation" (2003)
• "History of Beauty" / "On Beauty" (2004) (Storia della bellezza, 2004; Edited by U.Eco, coauthored by Girolamo de Michele).
• "On Literature" (2004) (Sulla letteratura, 2003)

Books for children

(art by Eugenio Carmi)

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• "The Bomb and the General" (La bomba e il generale, 1966, Rev. 1988)
• "The Three Astronauts" (I tre cosmonauti, 1966)
• "Gli gnomi di Gnu", 1992 (not translated yet)

Other

Further, Umberto Eco is an expert on the subject of 007, which adds him to the worldwide group of bondologs ("Bondologists," Scandinavian expression for an expert in the field of James Bond).

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James Bond related writings:

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• Il Caso Bond (aka The Bond Affair ) 1966
• : by Del Buono and Umberto Eco
• : A collection of essays edited by Umberto Eco.
• Umberto Eco:
• : "The Narrative Structure in Fleming" in his The Bond Affair (1966) reprinted in Bernard Waitesr, Tony Bennett and Graham Martin ed. Popular Culture: Past and Present (London: Croom Helm, 1982).