Author Umberto Eco died today too

[RoryN]

The Name of the Rose is what he was best known for.

 

[Sean]

Stunning writer. Foucault's Pendulum is The DaVinci Code for grown ups.

 

[Lorilei]

Godammit.

 

[RoryN]

Bad day for great authors.

 

[feverplanet]

Stunning writer. Foucault's Pendulum is The DaVinci Code for grown ups.

I never read In The Name of The Rose, but Foucault's Pendulum was a favourite. And I don't mean a favourite Eco, but a favourite novel, period. The layers in that book - it was thrilling. And hilarious.

 

[nerfhearder]

I really liked Name of the Rose. I found it incredibly interesting in it's detail of life in a monestary at that time.
Foucault's Pendulum was really fun. As someone just said, DaVinci Code for grown ups.
Those are the only two of his I ever read.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

He was a master semiotician.

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"Every translation is a case of negotiation."

— Umberto Eco

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Never heard of him.

 

[MichaelinChina]

Never heard of him.

I can believe that!

Travels in Hyper-reality is also brilliant.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I can believe that!

Travels in Hyper-reality is also brilliant.

Most of these clowns are most famous the day they die. He'll be on the remainder table before his body is cold enough to bury.

 

[cleaver]

the guy wrote what he had to...
he was entitled to check out

 

[removed9556]

 

[Hypoxia]

Good riddance to another wordy whacker.

I occasionally reread his Conversations With A Trout.

I am not enlightened.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I occasionally reread his Conversations With A Trout.

I am not enlightened.

Maybe he should've talked to a different fish?

 

[Sean]

I really liked Name of the Rose. I found it incredibly interesting in it's detail of life in a monestary at that time.
Foucault's Pendulum was really fun. As someone just said, DaVinci Code for grown ups.
Those are the only two of his I ever read.

Try Baudolino. It's laugh out loud funny with Eco's usual erudite tricks.

And Chrome thinks Baudolino should be Mandolin for some insane reason.

 

[RoryN]

Never heard of him.

And you don't know anything about Truman Capote, either.

You just said that in the Harper Lee thread to look smart.

 

[Penuche]

A translator as well as a prolific author - I preferred his "Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation".

 

[a75]

Stunning writer. Foucault's Pendulum is The DaVinci Code for grown ups.

I second that!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

And you don't know anything about Truman Capote, either.

You just said that in the Harper Lee thread to look smart.

I know what he said about himself, he left plenty of interviews.