HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and draws on...
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideolo...
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite...
This gripping conspiracy thriller by the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE is already a number one bestseller in Italy. At Lake Como in 1945, Mussolini is captured by partisans and shot. Decades later, the details of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in...
Mailand, 6. Juni 1992, nachts. Bei dem Journalisten Colonna ist eingebrochen worden. Die Diskette mit brisanten Informationen hat man nicht gefunden, Colonna sieht jetzt sein eigenes Leben bedroht. Auch er spielt ein Doppelspiel: Er soll eine Zeitung lanc...
The wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose ânow published in English for the first time.
Umberto Eco unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the 'linguistics of the lunatic', stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world.
Underscores the writer s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . Eco s pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious. "Booklist"
Der Italiener Simon Simonini lebt in Paris, und er erlebt eine dunkle Geschichte: geheime Militärpapiere, die der jüdische Hauptmann Dreyfus angeblich an die deutsche Botschaft verkauft, piemontesische, französische und preußische...
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every natio...
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these âconfessions,â the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more...