Eco, Umberto
Eco, Umberto ( 1932 – ),Italian semiologist. His works include: Thema: omaggio a Joyce (Themes: Homage to Joyce, 1958 , tape with music by Luciano Berio), La struttura assente (The Absent Structure, 1968 ), Le forme del contenuto (The Forms of Content, 1971 ), A Theory of Semiotics ( 1975 ), and Opera aperta (The Open Work, 1962 ). His historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose, 1981 ), concerning a series of murders in a medieval monastery, was an international best-seller and was subsequently filmed with Sean Connery in the role of the ‘detective’, Brother William of Baskerville. His second novel, Foucault's Pendulum, was published in 1989 . How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, a collection of miscellaneous pieces, some previously unpublished, appeared in 1994 . He has influenced the...
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