Umberto Eco

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29

Book Review: The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

Matt on September 29th, 2011

Umberto Eco, famous for his medieval mystery The Name of the Rose and slightly less well known for occult classic Foucault’s Pendulum, managed to sneak in a different, remarkable book on my shelves. The Island of the Day Before is Eco’s thorough exploration of an age of exploration and of the baroque. He navigates among [...]

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Sep
29

Upcoming book reviews

Matt on September 29th, 2011

Rumors of my demise … probably never happened. Nonetheless! New book reviews coming up, including: The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte The Last Run by Greg Rucka That means I’ve read the books already, and need to write up my reviews. Oddly, I have about the [...]

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Apr
18

Up next: The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

Matt on April 18th, 2011

I’m now reading The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. Eco’s famous for his intricate novels, with layer upon layer of reference and meaning. He’s a semiotician, an academic concerned with signs and the meanings of messages, symbols, metaphors and the like. That’s another way of saying he’s one hell of a lot [...]

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