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| - | '''Umberto Eco''' <small>[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]]</small> ({{IPA-it|umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko|lang}}; 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 ''Il nome della rosa'' (''[[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 ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' (''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''), ''L'isola del giorno prima'' (''[[The Island of the Day Before]]'') and ''Il cimitero di Praga'' (''[[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 ''Il nome della rosa'' (''[[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 ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' (''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''), ''L'isola del giorno prima'' (''[[The Island of the Day Before]]'') and ''Il cimitero di Praga'' (''[[The Prague Cemetery]]''). |
| 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 Il nome della rosa (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 Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum), L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before) and Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery).
He has been named Satrape du Collège de 'Pataphysique for having perfected one of its areas, the cacopedia.
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Bibliography
Novels
- Il nome della rosa (1980; English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983)
- Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989)
- L'isola del giorno prima (1994; English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995)
- Baudolino (2000; English translation: Baudolino, 2001)
- La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2004; English translation: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005)
- Il cimitero di Praga (2010; English translation: The Cemetery of Prague, 2011)
Books on philosophy
Areas of philosophy Eco has written most about include semiotics, linguistics, aesthetics and morality.
- 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)
- Il costume di casa (1973 - English translation: Travels in Hyperreality, Faith in Fakes, 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Experiences in Translation (2000)
- On Literature (2004) (Sulla letteratura, 2003)
- 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)
- Storia della bruttezza (Bompiani, 2007 - English translation: On Ugliness, 2007)
- The Infinity of Lists (Rizzoli, 2009)
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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