Libros de Umberto Eco

Serendipities

• 176 páginas
• From Leibniz's belief that the "I Ching" illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project...

Shem Havered

• 408 páginas
• El Nombre de la Rosa

Search For Perfect Language

Reading Eco: An Anthology

• 476 páginas
• "[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being...

The Search For The Perfect Language

How To Travel With A Salmon & Other Essays

• A collection of "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" ( The Atlantic )..

Apocalypse Postponed

• 240 páginas
• An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through..

The Limits Of Interpretation

• 308 páginas
• "Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes. . Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and possibly revolutionary book." —George J. Leonard, San Francisco Review of Books...

Misreadings

The Name Of The Rose

• 502 páginas
• The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He...

Interpretation And Overinterpretation

• 151 páginas
• The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and...

Travels In Hyper Reality

• 307 páginas
• Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated...

The Open Work

• 285 páginas
• More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and...

The Role Of The Reader

• 284 páginas
• In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at...

A Theory Of Semiotics

• 354 páginas
• " . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism