Umberto eco

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The first time I called Umberto Eco, he was sitting at his desk in his seventeenth-century manor in the hills outside Urbino, near the Adriatic coast of Italy. He sang the virtues of his bellissima swimming pool, but suspected I might have trouble negotiating the region’s tortuous mo...

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"The world is full of precious books that nobody reads” ― Eco Umberto "Eco began his career as a scholar of medieval studies and semiotics. Then, in 1980, at the age of forty-eight, he published a novel, The Name of the Rose. It became an international publishing sensation, selling more than ten million copies. The professor metamorphosed into a literary star." Know more about Umberto Eco's work and life with this interview by Lila Azam Zanganeh for The Paris Review.

His scholarship was as impressive as his fiction, and he pursued both with a good-natured humility.

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.” Umberto Eco, Italian, writer

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