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Article: Italian hero: Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, chews on comic books, epic poetry, and Baudolino--his latest club sandwich of a novel. (book review)
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Just after a matinee of Spider-Man at a Times Square cinema, Umberto Eco crosses Broadway, gesturing expansively and paying absolutely no attention to traffic. As he walks, lit cigarette in hand, he is explaining a key difference between comic book superheroes and the heroes of classic literature he tries to evoke in Baudolino, his latest medieval romp that is already on its way to becoming as great a success in Europe as his 1980 novel, The Name of the Rose, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Serial heroes like Spider-Man and Superman, Eco says as he blithely ambles across the street, are prohibited from changing; they cannot age or reproduce. He calls ...
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Article: Umberto Eco
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...Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect ... culture as well as to communication science and information theory. Umberto Eco was born in a small town in northwest Italy, the only son of an accountant ...
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