Knihy od: Eco, U.

Der Italiener Simon Simonini lebt in Paris, und er erlebt eine dunkle Geschichte: geheime Militärpapiere, die der jüdische Hauptmann Dreyfus angeblich an die deutsche Botschaft verkauft, piemontesische, französische und preußische Geheimdienste, die noch geheimere Pläne schmieden, Freimaurer, Jesuiten und Revolutionäre – und am Ende tauchen zum ersten Mal die Protokolle...

Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the linguistics of the lunatic, stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the Force of the False, Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that...

In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, rosters of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce, from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch and...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. But what if, behind all...

These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them admitting ignorance of the future. Amidst the twittering, the thoughts of Jean-Claude Carrière and...

Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these

Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to understand the nature of the second. But the various depictions of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is...

The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries

On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for...

Anno Domini 1327, letzte Novemberwoche, in einer reichen Cluniazenserabtei an den Hängen des Apennin: Bruder William von Baskerville, gelehrter Franziskaner aus England, kommt als Sonderbotschafter des Kaisers in delikater Mission: Er soll ein hochpolitisches Treffen zwischen der Ketzerei verdächtigen Menoriten und Abgesandten des Papstes organisieren. Doch bald erweist sich sein...

Questo romanzo, benché illustrato a colori, dominato dalla nebbia. Nella nebbia si risveglia Yambo, dopo un incidente che gli ha fatto perdere la memoria. Accompagnandolo nel lento recupero di se stesso, la moglie lo convince a tornare nella casa di campagna dove ha conservato i libri letti da...

Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call ´semantic´ (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his ´autobiographical´ memory: he no longer knows his own...

Questo romanzo, benché illustrato a colori, dominato dalla nebbia. Nella nebbia si risveglia Yambo, dopo un incidente che gli ha fatto perdere la memoria. Accompagnandolo nel lento recupero di se stesso, la moglie lo convince a tornare nella casa di campagna dove ha conservato i libri letti da...

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this work is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements.

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors,...

Der mit allen Wassern der Fabulierkunst gewaschene Schelm Baudolino erzählt uns seine Lebensgeschichte. Informationen über die historischen Hintergründe zu »Baudolino« finden Sie im Special des Carl Hanser Verlags ... Konstantinopel brennt! Die prachtvolle Hauptstadt des Byzantinischen Reiches

1327, Guillaume de Baskerville, moine franciscain, ex-inquisiteur et représentant du Saint-Empire, se rend dans une abbaye située aux confins de la Provence et de la Ligurie, afin de découvrir comment est mort l

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections...