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  • On Literatureby Umberto Eco

    Random House 2012; US$ 13.34

    Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers. From musings on Ptolemy and reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, to revelations of his own authorial ambitions and fears, Eco's... more...

  • The Name Of The Roseby Umberto Eco

    Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 14.67

    Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements. more...

  • El cementerio de Pragaby Umberto Eco

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 17.95

    Una extraordinaria novela que abarca desde los inicios del siglo XIX hasta los primeros años del siglo XX.   Marzo, 1897. París. Un hombre de sesenta y siete años escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedicó al noble arte... more...

  • Mouse or Rat?by Umberto Eco

    Orion 2013; US$ 22.64

    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. more...

  • Mouse or Rat?by Umberto Eco

    Orion 2013; Not Available

    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. more...

  • The Prague Cemeteryby Umberto Eco; Richard Dixon

    Random House 2011; US$ 12.00

    Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. But what if,... more...

  • Belief or Non-Belief?by Umberto Eco; Carlo Maria Martini

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 140.00

    In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day. One is a respected scholar and one of the pre-eminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe; the other the world famous author of The Name of the Rose , a scholar, philosopher and self-decalred secularist,... more...

  • Inventing the Enemyby Umberto Eco; Richard Dixon

    Random House 2012; US$ 22.67

    Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel, The... more...

  • Naming the Roseby M. Thomas Inge; Umberto Eco

    University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 75.00

    The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy, postmodernism, the apocalypse, semiotics, and literary... more...

  • On the Medieval Theory of Signsby Umberto Eco; Costantino Marmo; Shona Kelly

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989; US$ 165.00

    In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione; the discussion of the grammarians, from Priscian... more...