{"id":5437,"date":"2017-01-20T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:18:48","slug":"umberto-eco-in-9-quotes-remembering-his-greater-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/umberto-eco-in-9-quotes-remembering-his-greater-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Umberto Eco in 9 Quotes: Remembering His Greater Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Umberto Eco\u2019s death at the age of eighty-four in 2016 also marked the passing of a philosopher, one who spent decades teaching and exploring the fields of\u00a0semiotics and critical theory.<\/p>\n

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The Name of the Rose<\/h3>\n

by Umberto Eco<\/p>\n

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Eco\u2019s career as a scribbler of fictions only began in his late forties, but these are the words most of us will\u00a0end up turning to time and again whenever we miss that distinctive literary voice, spending quiet moments in thrall to\u00a0that\u00a0highly-organized\u00a0mind playfully obscuring and revealing itself through a dense cloud of words \u2014 often in several languages at once. Here are a few highlights\u00a0from the author\u2019s bibliography, all the way up through Numero Zero,\u00a0<\/em>released just this past year.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

1. Travels in Hyperreality<\/em>, 1973<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. The Name of the Rose<\/em>, 1980<\/strong>
\n\u201cBooks are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn\u2019t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. The Name of the Rose<\/em>, 1980<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhat is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. Foucault\u2019s Pendulum<\/em>, 1988<\/strong>
\n\u201cI have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. The Island of the Day Before<\/em>, 1994<\/strong>
\n\u201cIt is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. Baudolino<\/em>, 2000<\/strong>
\n\u201cYes, I know, it\u2019s not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.\u201d<\/p>\n

7. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana<\/em>, 2004<\/strong>
\n\u201cNothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.\u201d<\/p>\n

8. The Prague Cemetery<\/em>, 2010<\/strong>
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t love someone for your whole life \u2013 that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends \u2026 But you can hate someone for your whole life \u2013 provided he\u2019s always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. Numero Zero<\/em>, 2015<\/strong>
\n\u201cLosers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong> : www.penguinrandomhouse.com<\/p>\n

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