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Umberto Eco

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#1 Italian bestseller “Witty and wry . . . It’s hard not to be charmed.” — New York Times Book Review “One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” — Los Angeles Times1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain …

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The Island of the Day Before is a historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th-century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman marooned on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a …

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Rosens navn er en postmoderne roman skrevet av den italienske semiotikeren, filosofen og forfatteren Umberto Eco. Den ble utgitt på italiensk i 1980, og ble oversatt til norsk i 1984. I 1986 ble den filmatisert, med Sean Connery og Christian Slater i hovedrollene. Eco ga i 1984 ut en essaysamling om Rosens navn, som …