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Umberto Eco

1932–2016

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and literary critic, best known for his novel 'The Name of the Rose' and his scholarly work on semiotics and medieval aesthetics. He taught at the University of Bologna and wrote extensively on interpretation, culture, and the philosophy of language.

Philosophy

The Name of the Rose (1980)
Foucault's Pendulum (1988)
The Island of the Day Before (1994)
Baudolino (2000)
The Prague Cemetery (2010)
Numero Zero (2015)
A Theory of Semiotics (1976)
The Role of the Reader (1979)
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
Kant and the Platypus (1997)
On Literature (2002)
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation (2003)
The Open Work (1962, trans. 1989)
Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
How to Write a Thesis (1977, trans. 2015)
The Infinity of Lists (2009)
Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011)

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