Umberto Eco, suffering from cancer for some time, died at his home in Milan on Friday night announced his family to the Italian press. He was 84.
“It was a great example of European intellectual” said Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. “He embodied the only intelligence of the past and a relentless ability to anticipate the future.”
Born January 5, 1932 in Alessandria (Northern Italy), Eco studied philosophy at the University of Turin and devoted his . thesis on “aesthetic problem Thomas Aquinas”
As he approached 50, published his first novel in 1980, “the name of the rose”, which sold millions of copies and was translated into 43 languages.
French director Jean-Jacques Annaud took her to the movies with Sean Connery in the role of the Franciscan William of Baskerville, exinquisidor responsible for resolving the suspicious death of a monk in an abbey northern Italy.
“We visited a lot of monasteries together, had an incredible energy,” Annaud told France info radio, paying tribute to “a fascinating person.”
“let me complete freedom, even to select Sean Connery,” he recalls.
the intellectual deceased leaves a widow, Renate Ramage Eco, a German art teacher, with whom he married in 1962 and had a son and daughter.
it is said that his last name responds to the initials of the Latin expression “ex oblatus caelis” which means “gift from heaven” and was given an official from his grandfather .
“Umberto Eco has been an important presence in the Italian cultural life of the past 50 years, but his name is undeniably linked, internationally, to the extraordinary success of his novel ‘the name of the rose ‘ “says Il Corriere della Sera.
” We will miss his view of the world, “writes La Repubblica.
Umberto Eco and other big names of Italian literature had decided to leave last November its historical publisher Bompiani, recently purchased by the Mondadori group (owned by the Berlusconi family) to join other new independent, called di Teseo the ship, named after the mythical king of Athens.
writing a childhood dream
Polyglot, Eco taught at several universities, especially in Bologna (north), where he held the chair of semiotics to October 2007 the year of his retirement. Also played the clarinet.
Eco explained that arrived late to the fiction “novel consider writing a cinch he did not take it seriously.”
After “The name He rose “, offered its readers” Foucault’s pendulum “(1988),” the island of the day before “(1994) and” the mysterious flame of Queen Loana (2004) “. His latest novel, number zero, published in 2014, is a contemporary detective story focuses on the world of the press.
He also wrote dozens of essays on such diverse topics as medieval aesthetics, poetics of Joyce, the vegetal memory, James Bond, the story of the beauty or ugliness.
“the beauty lies within certain limits while ugliness is infinite, therefore more complex, more varied, more fun “he explained in an interview in 2007, adding that” always inspired affection monsters “.
Men left, Eco wrote regularly in the weekly L’Espresso, and had a very critical look at modern society.
“social networking has he given the word legions of imbeciles who previously only talked at the bar with a glass of wine over and did no harm to the collective”, recently he declared recalls daily Il Messaggero.
“I sent immediately shut while today have the same right to speak to a Nobel prize. Is the invasion of fools, “he said.
The British newspaper The Guardian praised Eco as” one of the most revered names in the literary world. “
In an interview this newspaper last year, the writer explained that his ambition was to try to transform the reader.
“I think that an author should write what the reader is not expected. The problem is not asking what you need, but to change it. Produce the kind of reader that you want for each story. “
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