Umberto Eco

Famous quotes by Umberto Eco:

"Translation is the art of failure."

"If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity"

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."

"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

"I 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."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else"

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."

"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, ''I love you madly,'' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, ''As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.''"

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

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Trump’s closing argument: full-throated fascism

Alternet 21 Oct 2024

They’re evil ... They’ve done things that nobody thought was even possible.” ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... *These five elements appear in the works of cultural theorist Umberto Eco, historians Emilio Gentile and Ian Kershaw, political scientist Roger Griffin, and former U.S.

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Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent

Brainpickings 20 Oct 2024

Franz Kafka. “I won’t give up the diary again ... “Wrote nothing,” he laments in entry after entry ... Begin tomorrow ... Art from The Three Astronauts — Umberto Eco’s vintage semiotic children’s book about world peace 3 ... .

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Review: At Home in Two Worlds by Maria Aurora Couto

Hindustan Times 21 Sep 2024

Essays on Goa, from playwright Girish Karnad, a life-long friend whose passing she mourned deeply, to Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk and Italian philosopher Umberto Eco ... She lives in London.

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How ‘freedom’ got twisted in the American mind, fueling fascism

The Los Angeles Times 13 Sep 2024

“It can’t happen here.” Think again ... In part, they fault journalists ... That way lies fascism ... In my own education on 20th century fascism, I found Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay on the topic to be a great distillation of its aim ... It is a growing global threat ... .

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Scouting, WhatsApp messages and Messi – my two weeks as Argentina assistant coach

Yahoo Daily News 03 Sep 2024

The offer in the WhatsApp was clear ... Good lad, yeah ... Big ... Look for patterns in any set of data and you start to see patterns and the next thing you know you’re sounding like a cross between a character in an Umberto Eco novel and Matt Le Tissier ... .

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The Daily Mail 29 Aug 2024

He was then asked how he would sum up Oasis and replied 'I subscribe to the Umberto Eco view that Noel Gallagher is a poet and Liam's a town crier.

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Background For Love by Helen Wolff – a startling tale of romance from a great ...

The Conversation 28 Aug 2024

All publishing can be seen as a kind of translation ... Pushkin Press ... Helen then ran it alone till her retirement in 1986, continuing to bring translations of important European writers such as Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco to US audiences ... Sign up here .

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The Blasphemous dev's new Goya-fuelled stealth tactics monastery sim is basically Umberto Eco's The Great Escape

Rock, Paper, Shotgun 22 Aug 2024

Earlier today, old man James wagged a finger at us all sternly for not writing about Atomfall before ... Read more .

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Much To Know about the Roman Coliseum

The American Spectator 19 Aug 2024

I circled the Coliseum ... Umberto Eco, Italian author and scribe of the famous novel and film The Name of the Rose would suggest that human beings and especially their rulers often communicate messages through space via architecture or other visual art.

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The Guardian view on list-making: a habit that is part of what makes us human ...

The Guardian 04 Aug 2024

From Homeric epic to the novels of today, the history of literature shows that there is nothing trivial about a list “The list is the origin of culture,” said Umberto Eco back in 2009 ... ....

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[BOOK REVIEW] 'The Melancholy of Untold History'

Korea Times 27 Jul 2024

Was it "The Buried Giant of Kazuo Ishiguro"? The generational tales of Gabriel Garcia Marquez? The unravelling of fictions as expertly, and at times autistically, displayed by Umberto Eco and his characters of Casaubon and Belbo? I don’t think so ... .

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Seven Books to Read When Insomnia Strikes

The Atlantic 16 Jul 2024

HarperVia The Name of the Rose , by Umberto Eco Eco’s medieval murder mystery resists interpretation like a particularly thorny dream ... Within Eco’s closed, claustrophobic world, secrets, sins, and murder stalk the monastery after sunset.

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Italian Screens Movie Festival Comes to Medellin

Colombia One 12 Jul 2024

- Advertisement - ... The films that can be enjoyed at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin are Lo mejor esta por venir (Il Sol dell’Avvenire) by Nanni Moretti (2023), Lubo by Giorgio Diritti (2023), Adagio by Stefano Sollima (2023), Umberto Eco ... .

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It is getting harder for footballers to survive the social media abusers | Jason Stockwood

The Guardian 03 Jul 2024

Telling young players to stop online interaction is all but impossible, but real connection requires effort and empathy Umberto Eco made a provocative statement about social media when receiving an honorary degree in Turin in 2015 ... ....

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It is getting harder for footballers to survive the social media abusers

The Observer 03 Jul 2024

Umberto Eco made a provocative statement about social media when receiving an honorary degree in Turin in 2015. it “gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... .