Bibliofilia umberto eco biography

BORN: 1932, Alessandria, Italy

NATIONALITY: Italian

GENRE: Fiction, nonfiction

MAJOR WORKS:
The Name of the Rose (1980)
Foucault's Pendulum (1989)
The Island of the Day Before (1995)
Baudolino (2000)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004)

Overview

The long list of Umberto Eco's books and publications contains only a handful of novels, with the first two, The Name of the Rose (1980) and Foucault's Pendulum (1989), being his best known.

Umberto eco view on oasis

Despite Eco's relatively

scarce output, these novels' remarkable international success has made him the most famous Italian novelist writing today. Before the appearance of his first novel, Eco, a man of encyclopedic learning, was already well known for his contributions to the discipline of semiotics, or the study of how meaning is communicated, as a prolific author of books and essays on a wide range of scholarly subjects, and as a gifted writer on politics and popular culture.

His novels and other writings ha