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=== Bibliography (NOTE: For many of these books he is co-author) === === Bibliography ===


''Novels'' ''Novels''
:"The Name of the Rose" (''Il nome della rosa'' -- A philosophical detective novel in a medieval setting)
:"Baudolino"
:"Foucault's Pendulum" (''Il pendolo di Foucault'' -- A present day conspiracy theory novel)
:"The Name of the Rose"
:"The Island of the Day Before" (''L'isola del giorno prima'' -- A novel about a XVII century nobleman marooned across the international date line)
:"Foucault's Pendulum"
:"Baudolino" (''Baudolino'' -- A novel about a young peasant adopted by emperor ], and his adventures)
:"The Island of the Day Before"


''Books on ], ], ], ]'' ''Books on ], ], ], ]'' (NOTE: For some of these books he is co-author)
:"Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language" :"Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language"
:"The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)" :"The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)"

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Novelist and philosopher. Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy.

(biography)

Bibliography

Novels

"The Name of the Rose" (Il nome della rosa -- A philosophical detective novel in a medieval setting)
"Foucault's Pendulum" (Il pendolo di Foucault -- A present day conspiracy theory novel)
"The Island of the Day Before" (L'isola del giorno prima -- A novel about a XVII century nobleman marooned across the international date line)
"Baudolino" (Baudolino -- A novel about a young peasant adopted by emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, and his adventures)

Books on Philosophy, Semiotics, Linguistics, Aesthetics (NOTE: For some of these books he is co-author)

"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"