“It was so tiring that I never finished any of them. “I was a perfectionist and wanted to make them look as though they had been printed, so I wrote them in capital letters and made up title pages, summaries, illustrations," he told The Paris Review in 1988. He had always loved storytelling and as a teenager wrote comic books and fantasy novels. He later defined semiotics as “a philosophy of language."
In 2000, when awarding Eco Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for communications, the jury praised his works “of universal distribution and profound effect that are already classics in contemporary thought."Įco was born 5 January 1932 in Alessandria, a town east of Turin he said the reserved culture there was a source for his “world vision: a skepticism and an aversion to rhetoric." He received a university degree in philosophy from the University of Turin in 1954, beginning his fascination with the Middle Ages and the aesthetics of text. His second novel, the 1988 “Foucault’s Pendulum," a byzantine tale of plotting publishers and secret sects also styled as a thriller, was successful, too -though it was so complicated that an annotated guide accompanied it to help the reader follow the plot. prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk." But Eco talked about his inspiration with characteristic irony: “I began writing. “The Name of the Rose" sold millions of copies, a feat for a narrative filled with partially translated Latin quotes and puzzling musings on the nature of symbols. “The Name of the Rose" transformed him from an academic to international celebrity, especially after the medieval thriller set in a monastery was made into a film starring Sean Connery in 1986.
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