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Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and po...
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The long list of Umberto Eco's books and publications contains only three novels, Il nome della rosa (1980; translated as The Name of the Rose, 1983), Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; translated as Fouca...
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As a semiotician, novelist, medieval scholar, journalist, and parodist, Umberto Eco has produced an amazingly diverse and influential body of work since the 1950s, and he is certainly one of the most ...
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In the following excerpt, Dinnage remarks upon the multiple plots and allusions of The Island of the Day Before in relation to the seventeenth-century search for what today is known as the internation...
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Umberto Eco
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Critical Review by Rosemary Dinnage
