Libros de Umberto Eco

Turning Back The Clock

• 369 páginas
• After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the...

Experiences In Translation

• 135 páginas
• In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about

Zeichen

• 202 páginas

Baudolino

• 597 páginas
• Wir befinden uns im 12. Jahrhundert, zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge. Baudolino, ein gewitzter Bauernsohn aus dem Piemont, wird Adoptivsohn des Kaisers Friedrich I. Barbarossa. Den Kopf voller Flausen, Phantasien und Lügen, lenken seine irrwitzigen Ideen...

Baudolino

• 640 páginas
• Konstantinopel brennt! Die prachtvolle Hauptstadt des Byzantinischen Reiches - erobert, geplündert und in Brand gesetzt von den Rittern des Vierten Kreuzzuges. Einer von ihnen ist ein gewisser Baudolino aus dem Piemont. Den Kopf voller Flausen, Phant...

The Name Of The Rose

• 560 páginas
• Book Description: A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery,...

Island Of The Day Before

• After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully...

Belief Or Non-belief?

• 112 páginas
• In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day. One is a respected scholar and one of the pre-eminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe;...

Art And Beauty In The Middle Ages

• 144 páginas
• In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed betw...

The Name Of The Rose

• Classic 14th century mystery, set in the monastic world of Italy in the Middle Ages.

Das Foucaultsche Pendel

• 841 páginas
• Drei Mailänder Verlagslektoren, die beruflich ständig über okkulte Wissenschaften, Geheimbünde und kosmische Komplotte lesen müssen, stoßen auf ein äußerst rätselhaftes Dokument aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Darin...

Mein Verrücktes Italien

• 128 páginas

On Literature

• 334 páginas
• After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dantes Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto....

On Literature

• 334 páginas
• In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge dazzle throughout....

Candida Hofer

• 272 páginas
• "This volume contains Höfer's famously ascetic images of the British Library in London, the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpoint Library in New York, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the...

Baudolino

• 527 páginas
• In 1204 the glorious Byzantine capital of Constantinople is brutalized by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the devastation, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa crosses paths with Baudolino, a youngster with curious intellectual gifts. Charmed, Barbarossa...

Five Moral Pieces

Foucault's Pendulum

• 652 páginas
• This novel by the author of

How To Travel With A Salmon And Other Essays

• 228 páginas
• 'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a sleeping...

Apocalypse Postponed

• 240 páginas
• An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco’s essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations...