Умберто Эко
Italian novelist, essayist, and semiotician best known for The Name of the Rose; a scholar of medieval studies and mass culture whose work bridged academic theory and popular fiction.
Books
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1. Заметки на полях «Имени розы»
A reflective postscript that explains the novel’s genesis and design, detailing the research and constraints behind it, the choice of narrator and time, the function of the labyrinthine library, intertextual and semiotic games, and the notion of a model reader; it shows how genre conventions were used and subverted to balance medieval erudition with popular intrigue, and comments on the work’s reception and common misunderstandings.