Obit: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

20 Feb 16 - 06:17 PM (#3774040)
Subject: Obit: Umber to eco
From: GUEST,HiLo

Umber Eco, author of many wonderful novels, "The Name of The Rose " among them, has passed away. he was also well known for his books of philosophy on the arts. his were among some of my favourite writings.

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20 Feb 16 - 06:19 PM (#3774041)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umber to eco
From: michaelr

Sad to hear this. I don't know foucault about pendulums, but I know Eco was one of the 20th century's finest writers.

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20 Feb 16 - 06:56 PM (#3774048)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umberto Eco
From: maeve

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

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20 Feb 16 - 10:23 PM (#3774058)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

I enjoy Umberto's works.

A mother of a Latin teacher's pupil led to him.

This quote regarding his early development in Fascist Italy, he was born 1934, has a peculiar twist...his "world vision: a skepticism and an aversion to rhetoric."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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21 Feb 16 - 12:46 AM (#3774062)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
From: Mrrzy

I've known his name forever and always thought he was dead.

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21 Feb 16 - 03:58 AM (#3774071)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
From: GUEST

Eco is very seductive to those who, like me, have a smattering of knowledge. The romp through mediaeval mythology in Baudolino, the sly Sherlock Holmes references in Name of the Rose, and above all the intricacy of the unreliable narration of multiple intertwined conspiracies in Foucault's Pendulum. How Dan Brown had the brass cheek to publish his pale twaddle after that I don't know.

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21 Feb 16 - 11:59 AM (#3774147)
Subject: RE: Obit: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
From: GUEST,Fan of Bert

I really enjoyed The name of the Rose. I liked his style in Foucault's Pen. but I really struggled with Baudolino.It's a while since I read it but I really wasn't sure what you were supposed to do with the pages of lists or how they fitted with the story. It would be marvellous if someone could enlighten me.
I do remember discovering what a palimpset was. The idea that paper was so precious that you would steal a book for the purpose of erasing the ink and doing your own writing on it thrilled me in this world of information overkill and disposability!

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