Discover the 3 best books by Umberto Eco

Only a persistent semiologist can write two novels like Foucault's Pendulum or The Island of the Day Before and not perish in the attempt. Umberto Eco He knew so much about communication and symbols in the history of mankind, that he ended up spilling wisdom everywhere in these two fiction books towards the ultimate reach of the meaning of the human being.

In principle (and for many readers also in the last instance), they can seem too dense novels, in which a fascinating secret to be revealed is intuited but that advance too slowly, scrutinizing details that escape the less interested ordinary reader in theoretical depths.

Now that this author has left us, we may miss him. His legacy has been taken up by Dan Brown o Javier Sierra in the national panorama, to name two worthy heirs. But, without detracting from it, none of the great current mystery authors have such a level of wisdom about the great enigmas that concern us as a civilization.

Umberto Eco also wrote a humanistic and philosophical essay, as a good professor that he was. Whether it was fiction literature or more real issues, Eco always managed to captivate millions of readers.

3 recommended novels by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

No, I had not forgotten about this masterpiece of the author. Summit inasmuch as it reached millions of readers and therefore, seeking a point of objectivity, it must be raised to the peak of its creation.

It is a novel that has just the right point of sophistication, one that makes the reader feel intelligent in understanding and unraveling the case, a tricky case that affects a community of clergy in which many of them are gradually succumbing to a serious condition ...

Surely you remember a lot from the book or the movie: the library, the occult, the false morality, punishment, guilt, death, and some blued tongues as the only common mark in all the deaths that follow one another ...

The Name of the Rose

The island of the day before

There is something of science fiction in this novel created in the year 1643, a kind of fascinating contrast that misplaces and amazes you. Roberto de la Grive faces a new world after a shipwreck that almost ends his life.

He is saved thanks to the fact that he can climb up to a ship that seems to wait for him in the middle of the sea. When you go up to it ..., it is as if you had reached the antipodes of reality, a space between dreamlike and biblical that you would have well signed Arthur C. Clarke,en for some scene from his space odyssey.

And yet Roberto's letters are stories from his time that he writes to "the Lady", in case he ever reads them. In his epistles Roberto writes about the events of the days of those times, about what is predicted as the nearest future.

Because Roberto is not just any guy, in his letters we are discovering him in his true relevance…, he is a man who participated in great duels and who suffered from great loves. A wonderful setting with an island paradise, unreachable from the ship that keeps you stranded nowhere.

The island of the day before

The Prague cemetery

What do we know about ourselves as a civilization? Our truth is made up of the symbols of proto-men to the testimonies of the most structured language.

But really ..., everything can be so manipulable ... Who tells us that there was not a Simonini at every moment reviewed by man about his own advance through the world? Simonini, the protagonist of this novel, lived in the middle of the XNUMXth century and took care of chronicling what was happening.

No other science or knowledge is more easily upset than History. It is not about a posteriori manipulation, but rather about what will be true in what is written in old books, at the whim of a pen surrounded by illiteracy, without censorship or criticism. The simple doubt raises mysterious scenarios.

The Prague cemetery
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