• An exhibit on Virginia Woolf opens at New York's Grolier Club with previously undisplayed Woolfiana on Tuesday, Sept. 16. • That's the same day that Lynne Spears' memoir, "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family...
I lumber like the sad clown with the hope that my performance might make you
smile.
Yet I am like a flickering star over a cloudy sky.
The last time you noticed me, you launched my heart on a journey around the
world and now
I’m back....
Umberto Eco meditates on localised truces as a strategy to inspire broader peace
When we talk of peace and wish for peace, we always think in universal, global terms. We would not talk of peace if we thought of it only for a few, otherwise we'd go...
The novel’s own birth has epic dimensions. Combining the lush pleasures of a summer page-turner with arcane information and ambitious themes, Davidson’s manuscript prompted comparisons to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Michael Ondaatje’s...
Faith In Fakes by Umberto Eco is a superbly entertaining beginners guide to semiotics. To what? Semiotics is the study and interpretation of symbols. In our increasingly iconic age, the discipline has much to say, and to do so must delve deeper...
Umberto Eco examines topics from blue jeans and theme parks to ideologies and semiotics in this superb set of essays. Faith In Fakes by Umberto Eco is a superbly entertaining beginner’s guide to semiotics. To what? Semiotics is the study...
Background
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. Recently his 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code," and was re-issued by Harcourt in March 2007.
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