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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 Latin. Yet his 1980 book The Name of the Rose is one of the most widely read modern novels. Eco's new novel ...

Writer Umberto Eco was on the Lopate Show recently and he shared what he's been reading lately.

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.

Events: Umberto Eco will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 pm
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