The Writers Studio Season 2, featuring Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco, best known for four bestselling novels, "The Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pendulum", "The Island of the Day Before", and "Baudolino", is also a prominent literary critic and semiotician. His collections of essays include "Five Moral Pieces", "Kant and the Platypus", "Serendipities", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "On Literature". His theories extend the use of semiotics to fiction and combine various genres, literary theory, medieval studies, mystery, and biblical exegesis. "The Name of the Rose" has been translated into more than 16 languages and won two of Italy's main literary awards, the Premio Viareggio and the Premio Strega. Eco lives in Milan.
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Umberto Eco, best known for four bestselling novels, "The Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pendulum", "The Island of the Day Before", and "Baudolino", is also a prominent literary critic and semiotician. His collections of essays include "Five Moral Pieces", "Kant and the Platypus", "Serendipities", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "On Literature". His theories extend the use of semiotics to fiction and combine various genres, literary theory, medieval studies, mystery, and biblical exegesis. "The Name of the Rose" has been translated into more than 16 languages and won two of Italy's main literary awards, the Premio Viareggio and the Premio Strega. Eco lives in Milan.
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