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Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction—playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist bui
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- Author
- Eco Umberto.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674058699
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Memoir, Language Learning, Literary Criticism
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (450 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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