Умберто Эко - автор 140 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Имя розы, Маятник Фуко, Пражское кладбище. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
After the Cold War, the "Hot War" has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing governments predominate. It almost seems as if history, tired of the big steps forward it h...
As thoughtful and subtle as they are pragmatic and relevant, these essays present one of the world's most important thinkers at the height of his critical powers.
Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers. From musings on Ptolemy and reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, to revelations of his own authorial ambitions and fears, Eco's luminous intelligence is on display thro...
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions," the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction--playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming acros...
An important general collects atoms and puts them into bombs that he stores in his attic in preparation for war, but the atoms prefer to live in harmony and sneak out. Full-color illustrations.
В статье «Для федерации полиглотов» приводятся избранные места из интервью Умберто Эко с его переводчиком и другом, писателем Жаном-Ноэльем Чифано.
Умберто Эко, знаменитый ученый и писатель, с 1985 года ведет в миланском журнале «Эспрессо» еженедельную авторскую колонку - ее название подсказали спички «Минерва», которые у профессора Эко, человека курящего, всегда под рукой. Его статьи - отклик интеллектуала, наделенного ярко выраженным чувством ответственности, на большие и малые события в мире. В этой книге собраны тексты с 1991 по 1999 годы...
The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classi...
Romaani peategelane, inimpõlgurist dokumendivõltsija Simone Simonini, kelles tõelist kirge äratab vaid lookas toidulaud, pakub oma teeneid eri riikide valitsusametnikele, salateenistustele ja politseile, liigub topeltagentide, äraandlike ohvitseride ja patuelu elavate vaimulike seltskonnas, käib läbi garibaldiinide, jesuiitide, satanistide, vabamüürlastega. Romaani tegevus hargneb 19. sajandil, It...