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Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician. He was born in Alessandria in 1932 and was Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and President of the International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies.
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical
Novels
The Name of the Rose (1980)
Foucault's Pendulum (1989)
The Island of the Day Before (1995)
Baudolino (2002)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005)
The Prague Cemetery (2011)
Numero Zero (2015)
Foucault's Pendulum (1989)
The Island of the Day Before (1995)
Baudolino (2002)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005)
The Prague Cemetery (2011)
Numero Zero (2015)
Collections
Chapbooks
Non fiction
A Theory of Semiotics (1976)
The Role of the Reader (1979)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (1984)
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
The Sign of Three (1984)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
Conversations about the End of Time (1988)
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1988)
The Open Work (1989)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
Apocalypse Postponed (1994)
How to Travel With a Salmon (1994)
Faith in Fakes (1995)
The Search for the Perfect Language (1995)
Talking of Joyce (1998)
Serendipities (1998)
Kant and the Platypus (1999)
Belief or Nonbelief? (2000)
Experiences in Translation (2000)
Mouse or Rat? (2003)
History of Beauty (2004) (with Alastair McEwen)
On Beauty (2004)
On Literature (2004)
Turning Back the Clock (2007)
On Ugliness (2007)
The Infinity of Lists (2009)
Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011)
This is Not the End of the Book (2011) (with Jean-Claude Carrière)
Inventing the Enemy (2012)
The Book of Legendary Lands (2013)
Five Moral Pieces (2014)
From the Tree to the Labyrinth (2014)
How to Write a Thesis (2015)
Chronicles of a Liquid Society (2017)
On the Shoulders of Giants (2019)
The Role of the Reader (1979)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (1984)
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
The Sign of Three (1984)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
Conversations about the End of Time (1988)
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1988)
The Open Work (1989)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
Apocalypse Postponed (1994)
How to Travel With a Salmon (1994)
Faith in Fakes (1995)
The Search for the Perfect Language (1995)
Talking of Joyce (1998)
Serendipities (1998)
Kant and the Platypus (1999)
Belief or Nonbelief? (2000)
Experiences in Translation (2000)
Mouse or Rat? (2003)
History of Beauty (2004) (with Alastair McEwen)
On Beauty (2004)
On Literature (2004)
Turning Back the Clock (2007)
On Ugliness (2007)
The Infinity of Lists (2009)
Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011)
This is Not the End of the Book (2011) (with Jean-Claude Carrière)
Inventing the Enemy (2012)
The Book of Legendary Lands (2013)
Five Moral Pieces (2014)
From the Tree to the Labyrinth (2014)
How to Write a Thesis (2015)
Chronicles of a Liquid Society (2017)
On the Shoulders of Giants (2019)
Series contributed to
Awards
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