움베르토 에코

《장미의 이름》은 움베르토 에코의 소설로 1327년 11월의 이탈리아 어느 수도원에서 벌어지는 일련의 살인 사건을 다룬다. 이 소설은 당시 교황과 황제 사이의 세속권을 둘러싼 다툼, 교황과 프란체스코 수도회 사이의 청빈 논쟁, 제국과 교황에 양다리를 걸치려는 베네딕토 수도회의 입장, 수도원과 도시 사이에 흐르는 갈등 등도 다룬다. 이탈리아에서 1980년 처음 출판되었다. 이윤기가 영문판을 중역한 한국어판은 1986년 5월 15일에 초판이, 1992년 6월 25일 개역판이, 2000년 7월 10일 3판이, 2006년 4월 15일 4판이 발행되었다. 1986년 장 자크 …

In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid …

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the …

Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as Kant e l'ornitorinco in 1997. An English edition, translated by Alastair McEwen, appeared in 1999. The book develops some aspects of Eco's A Theory of Semiotics which came out in 1976. In the first …

Serendipities: Language and Lunacy is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco. Dealing with the history of linguistics and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language, the material in the book overlaps with La ricerca della lingua perfetta. As Eco explains it in his preface, serendipity is the positive outcome of …

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of …

The Prague Cemetery is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since The Name of the Rose.