UMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the best-selling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Italy.
Biography
Back in the 1970s, long before the cyberpunk era or the Internet boom, an Italian academic was dissecting the elements of codes, information exchange and mass communication. Umberto Eco, chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna, developed a widely influential theory that continues to inform studies in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies and critical theory.
Most readers, however, had never heard of him before the 1980 publication of The Name of the Rose, a mystery novel set in medieval Italy. Dense with historical and literary allusions, the book was a surprise international hit, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. Its popularity got an additional boost when it was made into a Hollywood movie starring Sean Connery. Eco followed his first bestseller with another, Foucault's Pendulum, an intellectual thriller that interweaves semiotic theory with a twisty tale of occult texts and world conspiracy.
Since then, Eco has shifted topics and genres with protean agility, producing fiction, academic texts, criticism, humor columns and children's books. As a culture critic, his interests encompass everything from comic books to computer operating systems, and he punctures avant-garde elitism and mass-media vacuity with equal glee.
More recently, Eco has ventured into a new field: ethics. Belief or Nonbelief? is a thoughtful exchange of letters on religion and ethics between Eco and Carlo Maria Martini, the Roman Catholic cardinal of Milan; Five Moral Pieces is a timely exploration of the concept of justice in an increasingly borderless world.
Eco also continues to write books on language, literature and semiotics for both popular and academic audiences. His efforts have netted him a pile of honorary degrees, the French Legion of Honor, and a place among the most widely read and discussed thinkers of our time.
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. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."
In seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times--and seven monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in Italy. And the crimes committed there are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery. Also a major motion picture starring Sean Connery and F. Murray Abram. 4 cassettes.
我庆幸我能以一个“俗人”的视角来阅读这本书。 任何严谨的思辨、逻辑推理、符号解构转瞬即逝。而对历史学、神学、宗教,我均无任何研究。 在迷宫中,你需要清醒。 这是一个故事,走入神的殿堂,我仿佛仰望繁星和众神,却又审视大地和人性。 创世纪的过程中,eco以文字搭建的...
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评分我一开始读的《玫瑰的名字》,是闵炳君译的,宝文堂书店,1988版(此书的“译后记”里又说参加译书的是刘斌、王军和顾骞三人,不知这三人和封皮上的“闵炳君”什么关系)。因这个译本曾对原著“略加删削”,我想看看全书如何,于是又找到谢瑶玲译的《玫瑰的名字》皇冠出版社...
评分此书不仅挑战推理能力,更挑战的是宗教学和哲学知识,极其混乱的中古欧洲基督教呀,没有维基百科能读懂此书的人那绝对是学者水平的。 1.”耶稣笑了吗?“从来没想过这个问题,各个福音书里的确是没有提到耶稣笑过这样一件事情。那么耶稣喜欢笑吗?中古欧洲的基督教传道士真是...
评分我一开始读的《玫瑰的名字》,是闵炳君译的,宝文堂书店,1988版(此书的“译后记”里又说参加译书的是刘斌、王军和顾骞三人,不知这三人和封皮上的“闵炳君”什么关系)。因这个译本曾对原著“略加删削”,我想看看全书如何,于是又找到谢瑶玲译的《玫瑰的名字》皇冠出版社...
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