The Independent - London, August 27th, 1994
His hugely successful thriller, The Name of the Rose, made Umberto Eco the most famous intellectual in the world. Yet little is known about the early years of the man once dubbed the Pavarotti of semiotics. In his new collection of essays, How to Travel with a Salmon, he tracks football, pornography and philosophy along some fanciful byways. But in this extract about Alessandria, his northern hometown, Eco's aim is clear and pure. Here are some scenes from the ordinary childhood of an extraordinary man
Po Valley Epiphanies
In describing a "flat" city like Alessandria, I believe the monumenta...
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