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In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.”
On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco famously delivered at the Milanesiana Festival in Milan over the last 15 years of his life. Previously unpublished, the essays explore themes he returned to again and again in his writing: the roots of Western culture and the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the potency of conspiracies, the lure of mysteries, and the imperfections of art.
Eco examines the dynamics of creativity and considers how every act of innovation occurs in conversation with a superior ancestor. In these playful, witty, and breathtakingly erudite essays, we encounter an intellectual who reads comic strips, reflects on Heraclitus, Dante, and Rimbaud, listens to Carla Bruni, and watches Casablanca while thinking about Proust. On the Shoulders of Giants reveals both the humor and the colossal knowledge of a contemporary giant.
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- De Susan en 08-12-23
De: Umberto Eco
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
- De: Umberto Eco
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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big ideas presented simply
- De Ashton en 01-31-14
De: Umberto Eco
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Numero Zero
- De: Umberto Eco
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 89
Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally). This novel is vintage Eco - corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories - and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Numero NADA!
- De Darwin8u en 11-19-15
De: Umberto Eco
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The Name of the Rose
- De: Umberto Eco, William Weaver - translator
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett, Neville Jason, Nicholas Rowe
- Duración: 21 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,737
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,437
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,439
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon-- all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry humor and ferocious curiosity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The meaning of the mystery & mystery of meaning
- De Ryan en 02-14-14
De: Umberto Eco, y otros
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How to Write a Thesis
- De: Umberto Eco
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not applicable
- De Tarik en 08-07-15
De: Umberto Eco
Accessible and Entertaining about Big Ideas
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