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Revision as of 14:45, 20 November 2001 by Goochelaar (talk | contribs) (+ notes about novels)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Novelist and philosopher. Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy.
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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"