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(Alessandria, Italia, 1932) Eco is currently a professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and the director of its Program for Communication Sciences. He launched his writing career in 1980 with the internationally acclaimed novel El nombre de la rosa (The Name of the Rose, 1980). Lumen has published his entire works: the novels El péndulo de Foucault (Foucault’s Pendulum, 1988), La isla del día de antes (The Island of the Day Before, 1994), Baudolino (2000) and La misteriosa llama de la reina Loana (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2004); and the essays Apocalípticos e integrados (Apocalypse Postponed, 1965), Tratado de semiótica general (A Theory of Semiotics, 1975), Lector in fabula (The Role of the Reader, 1979), Semiótica y filosofía del lenguaje (Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984) and Los límites de la interpretación (The Limits of Interpretation, 1990). In early 2007 Debate released A paso de cangrejo (At a Crab’s Pace, 2006), a collection of his articles published between 2000 and 2005 discussing topics such as the war in Afghanistan, September 11, and the consolidation of Italy’s populist media regime. Eco’s latest study, Sobre la fealdad (Regarding Ugliness), was also scheduled for 2007.
Lumen, 2005
DeBolsillo, 2006
Illustrated with the cartoons and book jackets that the protagonist discovers in his search for who he is, this novel is a love letter to literature, a portrayal of an Italian boyhood of the 40s and a sly meditation on human consciousness.
Lumen, 2004
What is beauty? Where was the concept born? How has it evolved over time? Eco’s answers appear alongside extraordinary illustrations. A true gem.
DeBolsillo, 2003
Lumen, 2005
This thrilling plot, filled with dramatic effects, narrates Guillermo de Baskerville’s detective work as he solves a series of mysterious crimes in an abbey.
DeBolsillo, 2003
Lumen, 2005
Three intellectuals establish contact with authors interested in the occult sciences. Together, they concoct a complex plan supposedly devised by the Templars seven centuries ago, only to enter a disturbing nightmare.
DeBolsillo, 2003
Lumen, 2005
This philosophical, yet adventurous novel, happily bases itself in the great traditions of Swift and Voltaire for pondering the failures and sins of our reality.
DeBolsillo, 2003
DeBolsillo, 2003 (estuche)
A picaresque adventure, a historical novel, a story of an impossible crime, a fantasy tale; this book is a celebration of the myth and utopia.
Lumen, 2000
“I started to write in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.” Eco tells us how he wrote the novel that garnered him international fame.
Lumen, 2000
A compilation of articles and essays analyzing problems in aesthetics, the mass culture phenomenon, critical interpretations of literary texts, and the semiotics and philosophical questions of interest in today’s world.
Lumen, 2000
Eco examines the concepts at the center of today’s debates in semiotics:
Signs, codes, metaphors, symbols and the opposition between “dictionary” and “encyclopedia.”
Lumen, 2000
This book attempts to unite the semiotic investigations developed by Eco to develop a global theory based on all the systems of significance and of communication.
Lumen, 1999
DeBolsillo, 2004
Eco examines the opposition between the “apocalyptics,” who view mass culture as the anti-culture, and the “integrated” intellectuals who believe it is the magnificent generalization of our cultural framework.
Lumen, 1999
In this compendium of elaborated aesthetic theories spanning the sixth through the fifteenth centuries, Eco explains the mentality and artistic taste of the medieval man.
Lumen, 1999
In this series of articles and investigations, Eco discusses the universe of journalistic and political discourse as well as the phenomenon of fashion and customs.
Lumen, 1999
In this essay, philosophy and semiotics unite to analyze the mechanisms of human perception. Why do we recognize a cat as it is? Why have we remembered to call it by this name?
Lumen, 1999
The field of communication phenomenon, the systems of signs, the dialectic between codes and messages, are some of the themes Eco tackles in this book, where he proposes a real system of culture as communication.
Lumen, 1998
DeBolsillo, 2004
Eco analyzes five important themes: Why has war become unfeasible; the characteristics and relevance of fascism; the effects of television on the press; the possibilities of a secular ethics; and the tolerance and intolerance of migration.
Lumen, 1996
"I think you can say that the origins and doctrinal model to Nietzche’s superman wasn’t Zarathustra, but Dumas’s Count of Montecristo." Eco expands on Gramsci’s statement for a study of superhumans in popular works.
Lumen, 2000
One of the most profound and exhaustive analysis on the poetical and linguistic structure of Joyce’s most difficult work.
Lumen, 1999
Eco analyzes the mechanisms of cooperative interpretation of fictional texts. He brilliantly develops a true semiotics of fiction.
Lumen, 1996
Picking up from the 1963 publication of Diario mínimo (Misreadings), Eco offers a new selection of essays attacking the academic world as well as the necessities of everyday life.
Lumen, 1996
"Come walk with me in the lush forest of fiction." Eco invites us to explore the complexities of fiction’s forms and methods.
With his intelligent, brilliant and critical vision, the versatile Eco
reflects on the recent international political conflicts and on the state of
the world at the beginning of the 21st century.
Lumen, 2007
Eco places himself on the opposite side of beauty. A summary of the different representations of ugliness through different times and cultures.
