Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 05. Januar 1932 |
Geburtsort | Alessandria, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy |
Todesort | Milan |
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Beschreibung | Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes. |
The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Translation is the art of failure.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
