Umberto Eco
Author
Publication Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Now available in a deluxe edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author: the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey
"Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end." —New York Times
"Whether you're into Sherlock Holmes,
...Author
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies...
4) Numero Zero
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder from the acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to...
Author
Series
Publication Date
1976
Language
English
Description
" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
" . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship . . . raises many fascinating questions." -Language in Society
" . . . a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." -Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art...
Author
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault's Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world's ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where...
Author
Publication Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this "astonishing intellectual journey by the author of Foucault's Pendulum ( San Francisco Chronicle ). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked -- on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis , he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne , anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the...
9) Baudolino
Author
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
Description
As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors. Born a simple peasant, Baudolino has two gifts: his ability to learn languages and to lie. A young man, he is adopted by a foreign commander who sends him to university in Paris. After he allies with a group of fearless and adventurous fellow students, they...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2016
Language
Portuguese
Description
Conhecido por haver revolucionado a semiologia com Obra Aberta, em que propunha a primazia da interpretação, Umberto Eco, nestes ensaios escritos entre 1985 e 1990, agora defende os diretos do texto: "dizer que um texto é potencialmente sem fim não significa que todo ato de interpretação possa ter um final feliz". Mais do que uma reviravolta no conjunto de obras que a Editora Perspectiva vem publicando sistematicamente, a aceitação de um novo...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2016
Language
Portuguese
Description
Enfoque revolucionário e atual dos problemas da estética e da teoria da informação, este livro é uma leitura obrigatória para todo aquele que, de algum modo, se ocupa da literatura, do teatro, da crítica, da publicidade, do design industrial e das artes plásticas, entre outras áreas. - As sucessivas reedições e o papel que desempenharam na formação e no debate de ideias, bem como na visão e na escritura de mundo que a antropologia, a...
Author
Publisher
Lumen Editorial
Publication Date
c2009
Language
Spanish
Description
Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Illustrated with photographs of works of art. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Collects essays written by the author over the last ten years, covering such topics as the reception of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, and the implications of the recent Wikileaks scandal.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Publication Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
How do we know a cat is a cat ... and why do we call it a cat? An "intriguing and often fascinating-look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them (Newark Star-Ledger). In Kant and the Platypus, the renowned semiotician, philosopher, and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum explores the question of how much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources....
Author
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, he crafts another ambitious and breathtaking novel. When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, his only remaining memories are books, poems, songs, and movies. Steeped in nostalgia and filled with vivid imagery, this work is a magnificent addition to Eco's...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis -- from choosing a topic to organizing a work...
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
Russian
Description
Znamenityy pisatel, professor neskolkih universitetov, avtor romanov-bestsellerov Umberto Eko (1932–2016) v etoy knige obraschaetsya k svoey samoy lyubimoy auditorii - k prepodavatelyam i studentam. Vse, chto trebuetsya znat nauchnomu rabotniku, osobenno kogda on beretsya za diplom, dissertatsiyu ili odnu iz pervyh nauchnyh statey, izlozheno s umom i taktom, s hudozhestvennoy vyrazitelnostyu i velikolepnoy tehnichnostyu. Lyuboy nauchnyy rukovoditel,...
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
Russian
Description
V rossiyskoy traditsii natsizm zovetsya «fashizmom». Umberto Eko, kulturolog, publitsist i filosof, ne osparivaet terminologicheskiy raznoboy. Naoborot, v klyuchevom esse sbornika on vydelyaet obschie printsipy dlya raznyh totalitarnyh rezhimov i pomogaet zanovo osmyslit korni togo, chto nazyvaet «vechnym fashizmom» v ego istoricheskih i, uvy, sovremennyh proyavleniyah. Eta podborka esse daet povod k razmyshleniyam o nenavisti, o voyne, o religii...
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!" To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: "We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they." On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco...