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One of the new things I'm going to do this year is host some Guest Blogs. Thus far, you have only heard about books on here from my perspective. But I have a lot of incredibly insightful friends whose thoughts I want to share with you as well! And I'm excited to begin with my good friend, Andrew Shaughnessy: I’m not quite sure what I was thinking when I agreed to write about Umberto Eco when Amy asked me to write a guest post for her blog. I have so much to say, too much to say, in fact. Eco…

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"The world is full of precious books that nobody reads” ― Eco Umberto "Eco began his career as a scholar of medieval studies and semiotics. Then, in 1980, at the age of forty-eight, he published a novel, The Name of the Rose. It became an international publishing sensation, selling more than ten million copies. The professor metamorphosed into a literary star." Know more about Umberto Eco's work and life with this interview by Lila Azam Zanganeh for The Paris Review.

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Umberto Eco (born 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written other novels, including Foucault's Pendulum) and The Island of the Day Before. His novel The Prague Cemetery, released in 2010, was a best-seller.

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