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.
欲望与书的迷宫 赵松 博尔赫斯之后,轻率地谈论书籍所构建的迷宫,容易被视为滥调。要想在这方面不陷入博尔赫斯的阴影,需要比较大的才能。一九八零年,翁贝托-埃科完成了《玫瑰的名字》,在里面他虚构了一座迷宫式图书馆,有复杂的路径、无数珍本古籍、神秘的镜子,还有难解的...
評分有人说,看完《玫瑰之名》再与埃科聊天,就好像面对一根波隆纳的罗马蜡烛;他才情焕发,心思缜密,是个诡谲但不狡狯的学者。 虽然这种形容跟鬼话一样,但我不得不承认,《玫瑰之名》的确是根漂亮的“波隆纳罗马蜡烛”。阅读它的最佳方式是:随便翻到一页,读下去,直到困倦。...
評分沈萼梅/文 意大利当代著名作家翁贝托·埃科的成名作《玫瑰的名字》的中译本终于由上海译文出版社出版了。我接到样书后,拿出三十年前(1980年)出版的、纸张业已发黄的原著感慨万千。全书共36万字,字字句句都令我回想起翻译此书所走过的历程…… 当初我是勉强承担下《玫...
評分上个周末到的书,通宵达旦的今天就看完了!感觉还行,感到自己知识面狭窄很多地方都无法参透其隐语,有人给我介绍说这是一本关于符号哲学的书,我甚至在以前没有听说过这门哲学。读这本书完全用刚看过书去,感觉这本书可以和红楼梦相提并论,虽然二者所产生的文化土壤千差万别...
評分美国的朋友打来电话,告之意大利人昂贝尔托·埃科(Umberto Eco, 1932- )的第四部长篇小说Baudolino的英文即将上市,已经替我在亚马逊网站预订了一本。闻言欣欣然,正逢长夏无事,先把《玫瑰之名》找出来看第N遍。说起来中国也出了不少和埃科有关的书了,光是《玫瑰之...
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