Umberto Eco, pioneering semiotician, reader-response critic, and fine novelist and library owner: Born Jan. 5, 1932 - 78 today…
“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.” ― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro” (I...searched...
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Reading The Prague Cemetery right now. Happy birthday, Umberto,
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