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Article: Even eggheads have fun: Umberto Eco spikes his esoteric intellectualism with pop culture.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2002
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Byline: Chauncey Mabe
_`Baudolino' by Umberto Eco; Harcourt ($27)
One of the great mysteries of modern world literature is the popularity of Italian semiotician-turned-novelist Umberto Eco. When his first attempt at fiction, ``The Name of the Rose,'' was published in this country in 1983, it proved a tonic to readers, who eventually bought up 9 million copies. An erudite murder mystery set in a 14th-century monastery, it was called "intellectual" and "demanding" and branded the most "unread best-seller" in history.
Eco's second novel, ``Foucault's Pendulum'' (1989), was deemed even more esoteric and obtuse, stuffed as it was with detailed ...
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... ... intelectual ms famoso de Italia, Umberto Eco, lingista y experto en medios ... isla del da antes, 1994). Y con Baudolino (2001), su obra ms reciente ... sexual". Hijo de un contador, Umberto Eco naci 1932 en Alejandra, y estudi ...
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