UMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the best-selling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Italy.
Biography
Back in the 1970s, long before the cyberpunk era or the Internet boom, an Italian academic was dissecting the elements of codes, information exchange and mass communication. Umberto Eco, chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna, developed a widely influential theory that continues to inform studies in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies and critical theory.
Most readers, however, had never heard of him before the 1980 publication of The Name of the Rose, a mystery novel set in medieval Italy. Dense with historical and literary allusions, the book was a surprise international hit, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. Its popularity got an additional boost when it was made into a Hollywood movie starring Sean Connery. Eco followed his first bestseller with another, Foucault's Pendulum, an intellectual thriller that interweaves semiotic theory with a twisty tale of occult texts and world conspiracy.
Since then, Eco has shifted topics and genres with protean agility, producing fiction, academic texts, criticism, humor columns and children's books. As a culture critic, his interests encompass everything from comic books to computer operating systems, and he punctures avant-garde elitism and mass-media vacuity with equal glee.
More recently, Eco has ventured into a new field: ethics. Belief or Nonbelief? is a thoughtful exchange of letters on religion and ethics between Eco and Carlo Maria Martini, the Roman Catholic cardinal of Milan; Five Moral Pieces is a timely exploration of the concept of justice in an increasingly borderless world.
Eco also continues to write books on language, literature and semiotics for both popular and academic audiences. His efforts have netted him a pile of honorary degrees, the French Legion of Honor, and a place among the most widely read and discussed thinkers of our time.
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 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 sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."
In seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times--and seven monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in Italy. And the crimes committed there are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery. Also a major motion picture starring Sean Connery and F. Murray Abram. 4 cassettes.
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評分這本書裏探討瞭很多有趣的問題,故事本身倒不怎麼齣人意料,倒是辯論中能看到很多不同的觀念,涉及各種領域,有啓發性。有可能的話值得再好好迴味一下。
評分有人說,看完《玫瑰之名》再與埃科聊天,就好像麵對一根波隆納的羅馬蠟燭;他纔情煥發,心思縝密,是個詭譎但不狡獪的學者。 雖然這種形容跟鬼話一樣,但我不得不承認,《玫瑰之名》的確是根漂亮的“波隆納羅馬蠟燭”。閱讀它的最佳方式是:隨便翻到一頁,讀下去,直到睏倦。...
評分瀋萼梅/文 意大利當代著名作傢翁貝托·埃科的成名作《玫瑰的名字》的中譯本終於由上海譯文齣版社齣版瞭。我接到樣書後,拿齣三十年前(1980年)齣版的、紙張業已發黃的原著感慨萬韆。全書共36萬字,字字句句都令我迴想起翻譯此書所走過的曆程…… 當初我是勉強承擔下《玫...
評分我慶幸我能以一個“俗人”的視角來閱讀這本書。 任何嚴謹的思辨、邏輯推理、符號解構轉瞬即逝。而對曆史學、神學、宗教,我均無任何研究。 在迷宮中,你需要清醒。 這是一個故事,走入神的殿堂,我仿佛仰望繁星和眾神,卻又審視大地和人性。 創世紀的過程中,eco以文字搭建的...
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