Harcourt, Inc, 2003. — 527 p. — ISBN: 0156029065 (ISBN13: 9780156029063) William Weaver (Translator) It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the...
Mariner Books, 1995. — 256 p. — ISBN: 015600125X (ISBN13: 9780156001250) William Weaver (Translator) In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more.
University of Toronto Press, 2001. — 112 p. — ISBN: 0802035337 (ISBN13: 9780802035332) Alastair McEwen (translator) In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also...
Mariner Books, 2007. — 623 p. — ISBN: 015603297X (ISBN13: 9780156032971) William Weaver (Translator) Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0547640978 (ISBN13: 9780547640976) Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for the past ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his most recent novel, The Prague Cemetery—every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn’t have one, must invent it—to a...
Mariner Books, 2005. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0156032392 (ISBN13: 9780156032391) Martin L. McLaughlin (Translator) In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of...
Harvard University Press, 1998. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0674810511; ISBN13: 9780674810518. In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader--his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007 and all his ladies. We see, hear, and...
Mariner Books, 2006. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0156030373 (ISBN13: 9780156030373) After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. — 469 p. — ISBN: 0151011400 (ISBN13: 9780151011407) Geoffrey Brock (translator) Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing...
Warner Books, 1986. The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements
Mariner Books, 2014. — 592 p. The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger...
Harvest Books, 1994. — 536 p. — ISBN: 0156001314; ISBN13: 9780156001311. The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcout, 2011. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0547577532, ISBN13: 978-0547577531 Richard Dixon (Translator) 19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and...
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