Umberto Eco (5 Januari 1932 – 19 Februari 2016) merupakan seorang filsuf dan novelis berkebangsaan Italia, yang menjadi terkenal saat menulis novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) dan beberapa esai lainnya. Eco dilahirkan di Alessandria, Piedmont. Ayahnya, Giulio, merupakan ahli akuntan.
Dia meninggal dunia pada 19 Februari 2016 karena kanker pankreas.
Bibiliografi
Novel
- Il nome della rosa (1980 - English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983)
- Il pendolo di Foucault (1988 - English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989)
- L'isola del giorno prima (1994 - English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995)
- Baudolino (2000 - English translation: Baudolino)
- La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2004 - English translation: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005)
Buku di filosofi
- Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956 - English translation: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, Revised)
- "Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica (1959 - Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985)
- Opera aperta (1962, rev. 1976 - English translation: The Open Work (1989)
- Diario Minimo (1963 - English translation: Misreadings, 1993)
- Apocalittici e integrati (1964 - Partial English translation: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994)
- Le poetiche di Joyce (1965 - English translations: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989)
- Il costume di casa (1973 - English translation: Travels in Hyperreality, Faith in Fakes, 1986)
- Trattato di semiotica generale (1975 - English translation: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976)
- Il Superuomo di massa (1976)
- Dalla periferia dell'impero (1977)
- Lector in fabula (1979)
- The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1979 - English edition containing essays from Opera aperta, Apocalittici e integrati, Forme del contenuto (1971), Il Superuomo di massa, Lector in Fabula).
- Sette anni di desiderio (1983)
- Postille al nome della rosa (1983 - English translation: Postscript to The Name of the Rose, 1984)
- Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio (1984 - English translation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984)
- I limiti dell'interpretazione (1990 - The Limits of Interpretation, 1990)
- Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992 - with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; edited by S. Collini)
- La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (1993 - English translation: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe), 1995)
- Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
- Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre (1996 - in Italian, English, French)
- In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini), 1996 - English translation: Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue, 2000)
- Cinque scritti morali (1997 - English translation: Five Moral Pieces, 2001)
- Kant e l'ornitorinco (1997 - English translation: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, 1999)
- Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)
- How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (1998 - Partial English translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
- Experiences in Translation (2000)
- On Literature (2004) (Sulla letteratura, 2003)
- Mouse or Rat?: Translation as negotiation (2003)
- Storia della bellezza (2004, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele - English translation: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004)
- Storia della bruttezza (Bompiani, 2007 - English translation: On Ugliness, 2007)
Manual
- Come si fa una tesi di laurea (1977)
Buku untuk anak-anak
(karya oleh Eugenio Carmi)
- La bomba e il generale (1966, Rev. 1988 - English translation: The Bomb and the General'
- I tre cosmonauti (1966 - English translation: The Three Astronauts')
- Gli gnomi di Gnu (1992)
Referensi
- . Il Messaggero (dalam bahasa Italia). 20 February 2016. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2016-02-21. Diakses tanggal 20 February 2016.
Pranala luar
Wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan dengan: Umberto Eco.
- Porta Ludovica 2004-04-01 di Wayback Machine.: An extensive Umberto Eco resource.
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Annotation Project, a Wiki 2008-09-14 di Wayback Machine.
- Eco talk at UC Berkeley (1982): "From Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes" (online audio recording) 2006-02-20 di Wayback Machine.
- Eco's talk in Alexandria 2004-02-01 di Wayback Machine. on "Vegetal and mineral memory" which considers, among other things, encyclopedias.
- IMDb.com Listing: The Name of the Rose (film)
- Ur-Fascism Diarsipkan 2005-11-29 di Library of Congress Web Archives (essay in The New York Review of Books, June 22, 1995)
- Unofficial Umberto Eco MySpace profile
- "A Conversation on Information" Interview with Umberto Eco by Patrick Coppock, February, 1995 2010-06-17 di Wayback Machine.
- "Offical Website"