Umberto Eco
A Game of Sorrows, By Shona MacLean
...balanced against the prejudices of his time - he is prone to judge people by their religion, rather as Umberto Eco gave his otherwise modern-minded sleuth in The Name of the Rose some...
The Book is Always Better Than the Movie-Part II
...escalate into a grim battle for the hearts and minds of his fellow inmates. 4: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I feel this is one of the best detective novels ever written.
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...too. I very much like books which serve up surprising combinations, as this one does. 2. Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists. The color plates are beautiful and favor artworks...
Arts: Culture vulture: Opera singer Gwyn Hughes-Jones
It's a mixture of studies and obsessive pleasure. Which book are you currently reading? Umberto Eco - How to Travel With A Salmon And Other Essays. What are you planning to do...
Italian author Umberto Eco said: "I can read the Bible, Homer, or Dylan Dog for several days without being bored."
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How Will Google Handle Italy's Folly?
...video was porn and what wasn't. Really, the mind reels at this medieval verdict. Italy's the home of Umberto Eco and Primo Levi; it can do better than this. Chris Thompson is a...
Paper Warfare
...of the reader's realm, which is why, as the classicist Mary Beard observed in reviewing Umberto Eco's The Infinity of Lists for the Guardian, the list "is seen as one of the main...
Anthony Lane: “Shutter Island” and “A Prophet.”
...the fixations and flourishes of style on which they relied. In a celebrated riff on "Casablanca," Umberto Eco wrote, "Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches move us, because we...
Great historical fiction Part II — international titles suggested by readers
...Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn's reader-generated list of great historical novels, including titles by Umberto Eco, Ken Follett, Alan Furst and Patrick O'Brian. I now know what...
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Boyd Tonkin: The good life of a gentle anarchist
...and Joseph O'Connor. The ticket price (GBP18) even includes a goodie bag with a signed novel by Umberto Eco. Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and may be...
Forget 'serious' novels, I've turned to a life of crime
...mysteries I devoured in my teens, the one novel that took my breath away with its scope and invention was Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Almost as soon as I had read the first...
Naming a novel: nine months of angst
...that had a wobbly start is The Name of the Rose. Its working title was "The Abbey of the Crime", but Umberto Eco rejected this because it concentrated the reader's attention entirely on...
The New Canon: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
...of superior writers." Author: Ted Gioia - Published: Jan 25, 2010 at 10:33 am 0 comments Just as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980) anticipated Dan Brown's 2003 bestseller The...
