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Umberto Eco
Friday, December 02, 2011
Umberto Eco is not your typical best-selling author. He’s a medieval scholar, a semiotics professor, and he packs his complicated fiction with philosophy, history, even passages in ...
Guest Picks: Umberto Eco
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Writer Umberto Eco was on the Lopate Show recently and he shared what he's been reading lately.
Umberto Eco's Novel, The Prague Cemetery
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Umberto Eco discusses his highly anticipated, controversial novel, The Prague Cemetery. It looks at 19th-century Europe, rife with conspiracies and scapegoats. But what if, behind all of the conspiracies that ran rampant in Europe, both real and imagined, lay one man, who created its most infamous document? Eco takes readers on a journey through the underbelly of Europe’s world-shattering events.
Umberto Eco on Ugliness
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder….and ugliness may be too. Umberto Eco explores why humans are both attracted to and repelled by the monstrous in his new book On Ugliness.
Events: Umberto Eco will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 pm
Union ...
On Ugliness
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then ugliness is too. Umberto Eco explores human fascination and disgust towards ugliness. Also, find out how the oil industry benefited from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992. We hear about the drawings of French pointillist Georges Seurat. Plus: ...
