The Italian writer Umberto Eco is dead. The Italian media reported, citing his family. He died on Friday night at the age of 84 years. His novel “The Name of the Rose” made him world famous.
The Italian writer Umberto Eco is dead. As the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”, citing the family reported Eco died on Friday night at the age of 84 years. The family explained Eco died around 22.30 in his apartment. Umberto Eco was known primarily as an author. . However, the Italians also went up as a philosopher and linguist a name
After his novel “The Name of the Rose” (1980) he celebrated with other publications international success: “Foucault’s Pendulum” (1988), ” the island of the day Before “(1994) and” Baudolino “(2000) are international bestsellers. 2011 published the German edition of his novel “The Prague Cemetery”.
breakthrough with “The Name of the Rose”
Eco was since his sudden break with the bestseller million-selling “The name the Rose “three decades ago world famous for his novels. With numerous awards the writer, columnist and scientists has been awarded since then.
In Mainz Eco was in 2014 awarded the Guttenberg Prize. The Board paid tribute to his “brilliant cultural theory” and described the northerners as “gifted storyteller”, have introduced millions of readers in book culture and history. Even the Order of Merit and the prestigious Italian Strega Prize was awarded Eco in recent years. What was missing
Scientific Career
was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Eco writes equally exciting and intricate novels, full of flashes of inspiration and cultural and historical density. He is considered one of the great authors of contemporary world literature. He wants to represent life in all its blazing and contradictory Unauslotbarkeit try. He will not only entertain, but also provoke, and is thereby also not “one of those bad writers who claim they wrote only for himself”.
Born in 1932 grew Eco, the son of an accountant in the Piedmontese town Alessandria. He studied in Turin philosophy and literary history, struck after a career as a scientist. Eco initially worked for media and publishing before 1971 Professor of Semiotics. After numerous guest professorships in the world and more than 30 honorary doctorates he presented in 2007, finally, a his teaching.
Half a century with his wife married
Together with his German wife, with whom he more was married than half a century and has two children, Eco lived in his native Italy. His private library comprised by its own estimates, about 50,000 books
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