His perceptive essays on modern culture are filled with a delightful sense of humor and irony, and his ideas on semiotics, interpretation, and aesthetics have established his reputation as one of academia’s foremost thinkers. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions. Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. Umberto Eco’s early novels gained a reputation as intellectual entertainments, dense with esoterica and dotted with Latin, of a heft you’d rather not drop on. Con la sua struttura narrativa asciutta ed elegante, il libro può essere preso anche come un manuale di stile per capire. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. Numero zero è l’ultimo romanzo di Umberto Eco (Bompiani, 2015): un’operetta sagace e affilata su questo paese, raccontata in maniera breve, scorrevole, in una lingua impeccabile, colta e arguta senza risultare pedante. Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. 12,468 ratings, 3.16 average rating, 1,528 reviews.
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