Links to features about this thought stretching writer, Umberto Eco:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/italian-author-umberto-eco-dies-aged-84

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/international/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html?_r=

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco