Böcker av Eco Umberto

Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a ...

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In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gr...

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Simone Simonini har levt ett dubbelliv. Till det yttre har han varit en antikhandlare i Paris men bakom den stillsamma fasaden har han ägnat sig åt förfalskningar av brev och andra dokument. Förfalskningar som ändrat historiens gång. På ålderns hö...

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"Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes. . . . Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and possibly revolutionary book." -George J. Leonard, San Francisco Review of Books " . ....

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Historisk deckare som utspelar sig i ett benediktinkloster i norra Italien under medeltiden. Hit anländer munken William från Baskerville och hans elev Adso från Melk. När en munk hittas mördad i klostret, får William uppdraget att lösa mordgåtan ...

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"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." -Times Literary S...

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In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, ma...

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A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience a...

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How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, st...

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Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the ...

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Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of informatio...

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Simone Simonini lever ett dubbelliv. Till det yttre är han antikhandlare i Paris men bakom den stilsamma fasaden ägnar han sig åt förfalskningar av brev och andra dokument. Förfalskningar som ändrat historiens gång. På ålderns höst bestämmer han s...

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The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco s perennial areas of inte...

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Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic initiation rites, and Brazilian voodoo. A terrific joke--until...

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Konstantinopel står i lågor. Året är 1204 och det fjärde korståget har intagit staden där pilgrimer nu plundrar, mördar och bränner ner. I det kaos som råder har den bysantinske historieskrivaren Niketas tagit sin tillflykt till en av stadens kyrk...

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Efter stängningsdags på själva midsommarafton 1984 låter förlagsredaktören Casaubon frivilligt låsa in sig på teknikmusset Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers i Paris. Där begrundar han vad som fört honom dit och vad som kan ha hänt hans vän och för...

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En udda samling journalister på en dagstidning i Milano ägnar sig hellre åt utpressning, smutskastning och billiga skvallerhistorier än åt nyheter. I sitt sökande efter sensationer gräver en av reportrarna i en serie spektakulära händelser som ägt...

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Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenl...

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Konstantinopel står i lågor. Året är 1204 och det fjärde korståget har intagit staden där pilgrimer nu plundrar, mördar och bränner ner. I det kaos som råder har den historieskrivaren Niketas tagit sin tillflykt till en av stadens kyrkor. Han är n...

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Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of informatio...

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Av författaren till Rosens namn. En mäktig och inflytelserik man bestämmer sig för att starta en tidning. Vad bara några få känner till är att den aldrig kommer att gå i tryck. Det hela är bara ett listigt projekt för att få mer makt. Men när Brag...

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Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in...

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An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, and Con...

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'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a sl...

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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 ex...

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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-cen...

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'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject...

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The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of int...

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Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Eve...

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Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Eve...

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