Biographie d'Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is the author of five bestselling novels, The Name o f the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino and, most recently, The Mysterious Flame o f Queen Loana. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels in Hyperreality, How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, On Beauty and On Literature. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Milan. Geoffrey Brock is the acclaimed translator of Cesare Pavese and Roberto Calasso. His own poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.