Umberto Eco Quotes


We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.


Citations

Eco, Umberto. "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die." Interview by Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris. Der Spiegel, 11 Nov. 2009.

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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Novelist

Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. 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, and Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.