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Umberto Eco OMRI; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. His most recent novel The Prague Cemetery, released in 2010, was a best-seller.

He has been named Satrape du Collège de 'Pataphysique for his humoristic works such as How to travel with a Salmon, and for having perfected one of its areas, the cacopedia.

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Bibliography

Novels

Books on philosophy

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

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)

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