Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of numerous novels and collections of essays, including The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and most recently, Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism.

From the Review

April 10, 1997: Murder in Chicago

Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Ted Anton

June 22, 1995: Ur-Fascism

June 9, 1994: A Case for Textual Harassment

April 12, 1990: Help Salman Rushdie! (letter)

September 26, 1985: That's Art (letter)

June 13, 1985: On 'Krazy Kat' and 'Peanuts'

From New York Review Books

Pinocchio This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind (not to mention the advice-spouting Talking Cricket, whom Pinocchio squashes with a mallet in chapter 4). In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots.

Books by Umberto Eco

Belief Or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation (2000)
Jazirat Al-Yawm Al-Sabi (2000)
La Bustina Di Minerva (2000)
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (1999)
Imia Rozy (1999)
Tra Menzogna E Ironia (1998)
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy (1998)
Le-Tayel Im Dag Salmon (1997)
Kant E L'ornitorinco (1997)
Cinque Scritti Morali (1997)
Sugli Specchi E Altri Saggi: Il Segno, La Rappresentazione, 'illusione E L'immagine (1996)
Incontro = Encounter = Rencontre (1996)
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality (1995)
The Island of the Day Before (1995)
The Search for the Perfect Language (1995)
Ha-I Shel Yom Ha-Etmol (1995)
Interpretacion Y Sobreinterpretacion (1995)
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (1994)
Apocalypse Postponed (1994)
The Name of the Rose (1994)
L'isola Del Giorno Prima (1994)
Sei Passeggiate Nei Boschi Narrativi (1994)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
Misreadings (1993)
La Ricerca Della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europea (1993)
Gli Gnomi Di Gnu (1992)
The Name of the Rose (1992)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992)
Il Secondo Diario Minimo (1992)
L'enigme De La Hanau 1609: Enquete Bio-Bibliographique Sur L'amphitheatre De L'eternelle Sapience ..." De Heinrich Khunrath, Suivie Des 12 Lanches De L'amphitheatrum (1990)
I Limiti Dell'interpretazione (1990)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990)
The Open Work (1989)
The Middle Ages of James Joyce: The Aesthetics of Chaosmos (1989)
The Bomb and the General (1989)
El Pendulo De Foucault (1989)
Foucault's Pendulum (1989)
The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce (1989)
Foucault's Pendulum (1989)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (1988)
Shem Ha-Vered (1987)
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1986)
Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays (1986)
De Bibliotheca (1986)
Faith in Fakes: Essays (1986)
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1984)
Postscript to the Name of the Rose (1984)
Semiotica E Filosofia Del Linguaggio (1984)
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1984)
The Name of the Rose (1983)
Le Nom De La Rose: Roman (1983)
Beato Di Liebana: Miniatures Du "Beatus" De Ferdinand Ier Et Sanche: Manuscrit B.N. Madrid Vit. 14-2) (1982)
A Theory of Semiotics (1979)
Obra Abierta (1979)
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1979)
L'oeuvre Ouverte (1979)
A Theory of Semiotics (1976)