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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There was a pillow near his head
Saw the movie, didn’t read the book.
Read Foucoult’s Pendulum.
We lost Harper Lee and Umberto Eco on the same day. A sad day for literature.
Also saw in the paper today that Jim Davenport died, former Giants’ third baseman. He was 82.
I’ve read English translations of ‘The Name of the Rose’ and ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’, great books. Sorry to hear of his passing.
“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.
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.
Sad. He was a world treasure.
I liked them both. Perhaps it’s because I saw the movie well before I got around to reading the book?
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.
He was frightfully learned.
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.
But I managed to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the original language.
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.
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.
Do third basemen go in threes?
This was a truly wonderful book. I read it when it was first published and was spellbound.
Go with God, Umberto.
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