Umberto Eco

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

Eco was born in Alessandria[?], in the Italian province of Piedmont. He is an author and semiotician. He works as a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna.

Bibliography

Novels

• "The Name of the Rose" (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.

A film of this book was made starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman[?], F. Murray Abraham and Michael Lonsdale[?].

• "Foucault's Pendulum" (Il pendolo di Foucault) (1989) -- A present day conspiracy theory novel;
• "The Island of the Day Before[?]" (L'isola del giorno prima) (1995) -- A novel about a XVII century nobleman marooned across the international date line;
• "Baudolino[?]" (Baudolino) (2001) -- A novel about a young peasant adopted by emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, and his adventures;

Books on philosophy, semiotics, linguistics, aesthetics

• "Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language"
• "The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)"
• "The Role of the Reader : Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts"
• "Interpretation and Overinterpretation"
• "Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition"
• "Serendipities : Language and Lunacy"
• "The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)"
• "Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages"
• "The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas"
• "Belief or Nonbelief? : A Dialogue"

Books of his essays

• "Misreadings"
• "Travels in Hyperreality : Essays"
• "How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays"

Other

Further, Umberto Eco is an expert on the subject of 007, which adds him to the worldwide group of "bondologs".

James Bond related writings:

• 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).

External link

• Official University Website (http://www.dsc.unibo.it/dipartimento/people/eco/)