Authors: Umberto Eco

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

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“Come stroll with me through the leafy glades of narrative…” With Umberto Eco as companion and guide, who could resist such an invitation? In this exhilarating book, we accompany him as he explores the intricacies of...
Category: Essays
Travels in Hyperreality

Travels in Hyperreality

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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 insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright...
Category: Regional and Cultural
Il fascismo eterno

Il fascismo eterno

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“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare l’‘Ur-Fascismo’, o il ‘fascismo eterno’. L’Ur-Fascismo è ancora intorno a noi, talvolta in abiti civili. Sarebbe così...
Category: Historical
The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

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The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns...
Category: Historical
The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery

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19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals...
Category: Historical
Numero zero

Numero zero

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Una redazione raccogliticcia che prepara un quotidiano destinato, più che all’informazione, al ricatto, alla macchina del fango, a bassi servizi per il suo editore. Un redattore paranoico che, aggirandosi per una Milano allucinata (o...
Category: Contemporary
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

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Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians,...
Category: Essays
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