Archive for Umberto Eco

Eco: ‘It’s culture, not war, that cements European identity’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 31 January 2012 by delclem

The writer and semiologist Umberto Eco advocates a sexual revolution to make us all ‘European’. Interview by Gianni Riotti, La Stampa;

English (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012; photo: Sarah Lee

Umberto Eco: “People are tired of simple things”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 2 December 2011 by delclem

The author of The Name of the Rose on why it is human to lie, how Berlusconi has used conspiracy theories to stay in power – and Eco’s love/hate relationship with his most famous book. With a link to a review of his recent novel The Cemetery of Prague (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011