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Umberto Eco
They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then…
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Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects…
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Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers.
But who are ‘they’? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco’s iconic essay ‘Ur-Fascism’, which…
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It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion…
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and…
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century…
A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, the author presents articles, which he writes for his regular column in l'Espresso magazine, that explore many aspects of the modern world such…
On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco’s life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on…
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The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.
Luigi Natoli
A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time.
Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean…
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La novela emblematica de Umberto Eco. Una trama apasionante. Una admirable reconstruccion del conflictivo siglo XIV
Umberto Eco cambio nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequenos, fragiles, a veces criminales…
In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. In an effort to retrieve his past, he…
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Un manual de uso para los pequenos desafios cotidianos, segun el escritor que cambio la cultura -Corriere della Sera
El mas versatil de los intelectuales italianos combina la cultura de…
Umberto Eco inedito y urgente.
Eliminar el racismo no significa convencerse de que los otros no son diferentes de nosotros, sino comprender y aceptar su diferencia.
Esta coleccion de charlas…
UMBERTO ECO INEDITO Y VISIONARIO
Un canto de amor a los libros y a su acumulacion obsesiva, por el escritor que cambio la cultura (Corriere della Sera)
Umberto Eco cambio…
Marzo, 1897. Parais. Un hombre de sesenta y siete aanos escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitaciaon abarrotada de muebles: he aquai al capitaan Simonini, un piamontaes afincado en…
En esta conferencia dirigida a los alumnos de una universidad norteamericana en 1995, Umberto Eco alertaba frente a la sombra alargada de un fenaomeno que no se restringe al aambito…
Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic…
A collection of Umberto Eco’s essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces published in English. Organized into four main parts, these essays look at…
Focuses on what the author once called ‘the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation’ - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby…
An enlightened, spirited exchange that will resonate with believers and nonbelievers alike.
This striking book shows the world’s most beautiful libraries through Candida Hoefer’s mesmerizing photographs.
No one photographs spaces quite like Candida Hoefer and no one has captured better the majesty…
Recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward ugly manifestations. The author reflects on a…
Presents a short essay that appears in English, French, and Italian.
Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with…
.. . not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile. –The Review of Metaphysics.. . essential reading for anyone interesting in… the new reader-centered forms of…
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto…
A collection of essays on the key texts that have shaped the Eco, the novelist and critic. After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, this book examines…
Focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs - communication and signification - and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of…
this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory. –Times Literary Supplement
The author of The Name of the Rose considers a wide range of topics, from Superman and Casablanca , Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and…
An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of…
Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his…
Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows…
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions the author, now in his late seventies, looks back…
In this book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco…
Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant…
Numero Cero, de Umberto Eco, nos descubre la cara oscura del periodismo y la manera en que nuestra realidad esta en manos de quienes construyen las noticias. Los perdedores y…
Korean edition of Numero Zero, Umberto Eco’s last fiction! Eco’s Sardonic humor exudes from this suspenseful satire of a aging hack journalist that comes across a story that Mussolini was…
UNA MUESTRA DEL ECO MAS BRILLANTE Y ATEMPORAL
Alli donde Eco disparaba su inteligencia se hacia la luz. -Domingo Rodenas, El Periodico de Catalunya
La obra de Umberto Eco en…
