Umberto Eco, Author, Eco, Author, trans. from the Italian by Alastair McEwen. Harcourt $23 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-100446-1 Most famous for his complex, erudite novels, semiotician and literary ...

Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories ... Rocco Capozzi, World Literature Today "Bondanella's book amounts to a masterful sketch of Italian and Western ...

interspersed with...theoretical considerations are fascinating anecdotal details about the writing of his two novels making the book must reading for Eco aficianados." The San Francisco Chronicle ...

Sayers is a deeply influential crime writer, and her books with Wimsey as a main character ... he soon finds himself investigating murder. It was Umberto Eco's debut novel. Christianna Brand's ...

In an interview with The Paris Review, the Italian author Umberto Eco (”The Name of the Rose ... to the United States in hopes of supporting his family, but Emilia fears that her boy never ...

In a world unsettled by “deepfakes,” politicians, voters, and journalists are struggling to navigate increasingly prevalent ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes ... idea but didn't want to put his name on the book. Citing the mysterious Voynich ...

Thanks to Umberto Eco and his visit to Warsaw in 1968 ... would be an understatement – the 36-year-old scientist published The Absent Structure, one of his most important books in semiotics, and the ...

Charles Scott Moncrieff brought us Proust (his title Remembrance of Things ... Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2000) ...

Research that started in political science and now explored across the social sciences has argued that people deny the reality of a situation not because they don’t perceive the reality, but ...

In his Vikerraadio series, Harri Tiido takes a closer look at ... Approximately 40 years ago, the Italian thinker Umberto Eco ...

Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut in an unremarkable 1980 slasher cheapie called He Knows You’re Alone. And based on that ...