Italian writer Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His first novel, 1980’s “The Name of the Rose,” was a bestseller. In 2011’s “Confessions of a Young Novelist,” Eco looked back at his career as a ...

Umberto Eco stands among the most influential European writers, thinkers, and philosophers of the 20th century. His work spans groundbreaking essays on semiotics, beauty, language, and philosophy, as ...

Umberto Eco, who has died aged 84, was a polymath of towering cleverness. His novels, which occasionally had the look and feel of encyclopedias, combined cultural influences ranging from TS Eliot to ...

Two decades after the late Italian novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco published a devastatingly specific guide to modern fascism, his definitions seem even more prescient. World News Editor PARIS — ...

I discovered The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, the two best-known novels of Umberto Eco, who died on Friday at the age of 84, during my junior undergraduate year. A used-book vendor had ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any ...

Umberto Eco, whose most famous fictional work, "Il nome della rosa" ("The Name of the Rose," 1980) ends with the burning of a medieval library containing among other classical texts Aristotle's now ...

"I myself like easy books that put me to sleep immediately. But the normal reader who does not spend his day fighting with Kant or Hegel feels respected if there is a jujitsu with a novel, a ...