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Umberto Eco, author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dead at 84
AP via Yahoo ^ | February 20, 2016 | Colleen Barry

Posted on 02/20/2016 8:00:11 AM PST by EveningStar

Umberto Eco started working a novel that set the world's imagination on fire "prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk."

The Italian author and academic who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling medieval thriller, "The Name of the Rose," died at home in Milan on Friday evening after a battle with cancer, according to a family member who asked not to be identified.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: author; foucaultspendulum; literature; obituary; thenameoftherose; umbertoeco; writer
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1 posted on 02/20/2016 8:00:11 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Borges

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2 posted on 02/20/2016 8:00:32 AM PST by EveningStar (It's a cult.)
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To: EveningStar

There was a pillow near his head

Saw the movie, didn’t read the book.

Read Foucoult’s Pendulum.


3 posted on 02/20/2016 8:03:25 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: EveningStar

We lost Harper Lee and Umberto Eco on the same day. A sad day for literature.


4 posted on 02/20/2016 8:04:03 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: EveningStar

Also saw in the paper today that Jim Davenport died, former Giants’ third baseman. He was 82.


5 posted on 02/20/2016 8:20:47 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: EveningStar

I’ve read English translations of ‘The Name of the Rose’ and ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’, great books. Sorry to hear of his passing.


6 posted on 02/20/2016 8:24:40 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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“The Name of the Rose” was a great read; a book centered on the influence of thought. Though the extended Latin passages with no translation was frustrating.


7 posted on 02/20/2016 8:28:08 AM PST by CpnHook
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To: CpnHook

All you need is this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Key-Name-Rose-Translations/dp/0472086219

Your local public library system might have it. It not only has all the translations you would need but some short historical explanations too. Well, worth the look-see.


8 posted on 02/20/2016 8:31:39 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: EveningStar
His book, "The Name of the Rose" Was a Great read! I even read it twice.
The movie "The Name of the Rose" was total garbage. Not worth seeing if you read the book!
9 posted on 02/20/2016 8:37:29 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: EveningStar

Sad. He was a world treasure.


10 posted on 02/20/2016 8:50:36 AM PST by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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To: Fiddlstix

I liked them both. Perhaps it’s because I saw the movie well before I got around to reading the book?


11 posted on 02/20/2016 8:51:58 AM PST by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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To: MUDDOG
Also saw in the paper today that Jim Davenport died, former Giants' third baseman. He was 82.

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12 posted on 02/20/2016 8:56:27 AM PST by EveningStar (It's a cult.)
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To: EveningStar
All these people are dying. Everytime I turn around, somebody else is dead (I'm really going to have to stop turning around).

I have had Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum on my shelf for many years. Never got around to tackling it but now that he's dead, I might have to put it on my short list.

For those who have read his books, should I start with that one or should I get the Name Of The Rose and read that first.

I read "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett and found that to be a good book. Is the Eco book anything like that? Ken Follett is still alive I believe. So he might write more books still.

13 posted on 02/20/2016 9:14:15 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (17); Cruz (11); Rubio (10)
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To: EveningStar; wideawake

He was frightfully learned.


14 posted on 02/20/2016 9:58:08 AM PST by Borges
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on the same day, November 22, 1963.

JFK also died on the same day. He had a couple of books credited to him. I'm not sure that he actually wrote them.

15 posted on 02/20/2016 10:53:14 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I read "The Name of the Rose" in translation.

But I managed to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the original language.

16 posted on 02/20/2016 10:54:46 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ifinnegan

I saw the movie and then read the book. Book was better. Then I read Foucault’s Pendulum. Amazing book. I think I need to read it again.


17 posted on 02/20/2016 2:54:52 PM PST by Mercat
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To: SamAdams76

I will buy the keys before I read his books again. They were wonderful but very complicated. I would say that probably The D’Vinci Code stole quite a bit from Foucault’s Pendulum but Pendulum was in a whole different league.


18 posted on 02/20/2016 2:57:27 PM PST by Mercat
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To: EveningStar; MUDDOG

Do third basemen go in threes?


19 posted on 02/20/2016 3:02:55 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I'll support Trump as a second choice, and I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again.)
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To: EveningStar

This was a truly wonderful book. I read it when it was first published and was spellbound.

Go with God, Umberto.


20 posted on 02/20/2016 3:06:09 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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