Umberto Eco

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"