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'''Umberto Eco''' (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an [[Italian novelist]], [[essay]]ist, [[Literary criticism|literary critic]], [[philosopher]], and [[semiotician]]. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 [[historical mystery]] novel ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in [[fiction]], [[bible|biblical]] analysis, medieval studies and [[literary theory]]. He later wrote other novels, including ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'', ''[[The Island of the Day Before]]'' and ''[[The Prague Cemetery]]''. '''Umberto Eco''' (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an [[Italian novelist]], [[essay]]ist, [[Literary criticism|literary critic]], [[philosopher]], and [[semiotician]]. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 [[historical mystery]] novel ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in [[fiction]], [[bible|biblical]] analysis, medieval studies and [[literary theory]]. He later wrote other novels, including ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'', ''[[The Island of the Day Before]]'' and ''[[The Prague Cemetery]]''.
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 +Of his non fiction, ''[[The Search for the Perfect Language]] (The Making of Europe)'' (1995), ''[[Six Walks in the Fictional Woods]]'' (1994), ''[[Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition]]'' (1999), ''[[On Ugliness]]'' (2007) and ''[[The Infinity of Lists]]'' are of note.
He has been named [[Satrape du Collège de 'Pataphysique]] for having perfected one of its areas, the [[cacopedia]]. He has been named [[Satrape du Collège de 'Pataphysique]] for having perfected one of its areas, the [[cacopedia]].

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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before and The Prague Cemetery.

Of his non fiction, The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe) (1995), Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994), Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (1999), On Ugliness (2007) and The Infinity of Lists are of note.

He has been named Satrape du Collège de 'Pataphysique for having perfected one of its areas, the cacopedia.

Contents

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction books

  • La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea, 1993(La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea)
  • Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956 – English translation: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, revised)
  • "Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica (1959 – Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985)
  • Opera aperta (1962, rev. 1976 – English translation: The Open Work (1989)
  • Diario Minimo (1963 – English translation: Misreadings, 1993)
  • Apocalittici e integrati (1964 – Partial English translation: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994)
  • Le poetiche di Joyce (1965 – English translations: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989)
  • La Struttura Assente (1968 – The Absent Structure)
  • Il costume di casa (1973 – English translation: Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality, 1986)
  • Trattato di semiotica generale (1975 – English translation: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976)
  • Il Superuomo di massa (1976)
  • Dalla periferia dell'impero (1977)
  • Lector in fabula (1979)
  • A semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique. Proceedings of the Ist Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Den Haag, Paris, New York: Mouton (=Approaches to Semiotics, 29) (with Seymour Chatman and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg).
  • The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1979 – English edition containing essays from Opera aperta, Apocalittici e integrati, Forme del contenuto (1971), Il Superuomo di massa, Lector in Fabula).
  • Sette anni di desiderio (1983)
  • Postille al nome della rosa (1983 – English translation: Postscript to The Name of the Rose, 1984)
  • Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio (1984 – English translation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984)
  • De Bibliotheca (1986 – in Italian and French)
  • Lo strano caso della Hanau 1609 (1989 – French translation: L'Enigme de l'Hanau 1609, 1990)
  • I limiti dell'interpretazione (1990 – The Limits of Interpretation, 1990)
  • Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992 – with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; edited by S. Collini)
  • La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (1993 – English translation: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe), 1995)
  • Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
  • Incontro – Encounter – Rencontre (1996 – in Italian, English, French)
  • In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini), 1996 – English translation: Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue, 2000)
  • Cinque scritti morali (1997 – English translation: Five Moral Pieces, 2001)
  • Kant e l'ornitorinco (1997 – English translation: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, 1999)
  • Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)
  • How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (1998 – Partial English translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
  • La bustina di Minerva (1999)
  • Experiences in Translation, University of Toronto Press (2000)
  • Sulla letteratura, (2003 – English translation by Martin McLaughlin: On Literature, 2004)
  • Mouse or Rat?: Translation as negotiation (2003)
  • Storia della bellezza (2004, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele – English translation: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004)
  • A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico (Bompiani, 2006 – English translation: Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism, 2007, Alastair McEwen)
  • Storia della bruttezza (Bompiani, 2007 – English translation: On Ugliness, 2007)
  • Dall'albero al labirinto: studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione (Bompiani, 2007 – English translation: "From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation", 2014, Anthony Oldcorn)
  • La Vertigine della Lista (Rizzoli, 2009) – English translation: The Infinity of Lists
  • Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali (Bompiani, 2011) – English translation by Richard Dixon: Inventing the Enemy (2012)
  • Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari (Bompiani, 2013) – English translation by Alastair McEwen: The Book of Legendary Lands (2013)

Manual

  • Come si fa una tesi di laurea (1977)

Books for children

(art by Eugenio Carmi)

  • La bomba e il generale (1966, Rev. 1988 - English translation: The Bomb and the General'
  • I tre cosmonauti (1966 - English translation: The Three Astronauts')
  • Gli gnomi di Gnu (1992)

See also




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