Umberto Eco

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.

Drei Mail?nder Verlagslektoren, die beruflich st?ndig ?ber okkulte Wissenschaften, Geheimb?nde und kosmische Komplotte lesen m?ssen, sto?en auf ein ?u?erst r?tselhaftes Dokument aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Darin ist von alle 120 Jahre wiederkehrenden Zusammenk?nften der ?36 Unbekannten?, der Nachfahren der mysteri?sen Tempelritter, die Rede. Die drei Sp?tter st?rzen sich in das Labyrinth der Geheimlehren. Spielerisch erdenken sie eine gigantische Verschw?rung. Aber dann merken sie, da? jemand ihre Phantasien ernst nimmt. Und der schreckt offenbar auch vor Mord nicht zur?ck ...

After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie and Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style from French into Italian. In Experiences in Translation he draws on his substantial practical experience to identify and discuss some central problems of translation. As he convincingly demonstrates, a translation can express an evident deep sense of a text even when violating both lexical and referential faithfulness. Depicting translation as a semiotic task, he uses a wide range of source materials as illustration: the translations of his own and other novels, translations of the dialogue of American films into Italian, and various versions of the Bible. In the second part of his study he deals with translation theories proposed by Jakobson, Steiner, Peirce, and others. Overall, Eco identifies the different types of interpretive acts that count as translation. An enticing new typology emerges, based on his insistence on a common-sense approach and the necessity of taking a critical stance.

"Imja rozy" - kniga s zagadkoj. V nachale KHIV veka, vskore posle togo, kak Dante sochinil "Bozhestvennuju komediju", v serdtse Evropy, v benediktinskom monastyre obnaruzhivajutsja ubitye. Letsja krov, razverzajutsja sfery nebes. Chereda prestuplenij vosproizvodit ne anglijskuju schitalochku, a provozvestija Apokalipsisa. Syschik, konechno, anglichanin. On napominaet Sherloka Kholmsa, a ego junyj uchenik - doktora Vatsona. V zhestkoj konstruktsii detektiva nakhoditsja mesto i jarkim faktam istorii Srednevekovja, i pereklichkam s istoriej KHKh veka, i rasskazam o religioznykh konfliktakh i buntakh, i trogatelnoj povesti o ljubvi, i mnozhestvu novykh zagadok, kotorye my, chitateli, toropimsja razreshit, no khitryj avtor neizmenno obygryvaet nas... Vplot do paradoksalnogo i zhutkogo finala. Perevodchik: Kostjukovich Elena

In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective, penetrating the cunning labyrinth of the abbey and deciphering coded manuscripts for clues.

A fascinating, lyrical tale about an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean--a "dazzling blend of science and fantasy" (Los Angeles Times) and a "masterpiece" (Chicago Tribune)Roberto della Griva is an Italian nobleman living in 1643. His mission is to travel the South Pacific and discover the means by which navigators can understand the mystery of longitude. After a violent storm, however, Roberto finds himself shipwrecked--on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chapters from his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father; and the lessons given him on fencing, blasphemy, and the writing of love letters.

In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws into his old family home and searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and diaries kept in the attic.

Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers.

In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day. One is a respected scholar and one of the preeminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe; the other the world-famous author of The Name of the Rose, a scholar, philosopher and self-declared secularist, a man who writes with equal ease about Thomas Aquinas and James Joyce, computers and the medieval Templars. Often adversarial but always amicable, their debate will fascinate many.

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.

Giambattista Bodoni, Antiquar, erwacht aus dem Koma und hat einen Teil seines Gedächtnisses verloren. Auf der Suche nach seinen persönlichen Erinnerungen fährt er ins Haus seiner Kindheit und findet dort alles wieder: Bücher und Bilder, Comics und Kino, Pastadosen und Zigarettenschachteln. Was für Bodoni eine Reise der Wiederentdeckungen durch sein Leben und seine Lieben wird, gerät Eco zur Zeitreise durch das 20. Jahrhundert: witzig, nostalgisch und überraschend.

Was ist Schönheit? Umberto Eco zeigt mit Bildern und Texten in seinem großen, reich illustrierten Buch, dass Schönheit nie etwas Absolutes und Unveränderliches ist, sondern je nach Zeiten und Kulturen ganz verschiedene Gesichter hat. Von der Antike bis zu den abstrakten Formen der Gegenwartskunst, von Licht und Farbe im Mittelalter bis zur Malerei der Romantik: ein umfassendes Kompendium über die Kunst der Welt.

Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night.

Der mit allen Wassern der Fabulierkunst gewaschene Schelm Baudolino erzählt uns seine Lebensgeschichte. Informationen über die historischen Hintergründe zu ? Baudolino? finden Sie im Special des Carl Hanser Verlags ... Konstantinopel brennt! Die prachtvolle Hauptstadt des Byzantinischen Reiches - erobert, geplündert und in Brand gesetzt von den Rittern des Vierten Kreuzzuges. Einer von ihnen ist ein gewisser Baudolino aus dem Piemont. Den Kopf voller Flausen, Phantasien und Lügen, führt er uns durch ein historisches Panorama von überwältigender Breite. Er erzählt, wie er als 13jähriger Bauernsohn den im Nebel herumirrenden Kaiser Barbarossa aufgabelt, der Gefallen an dem naseweisen Jungen findet und ihn daraufhin adoptiert; wie er den Kaiser auf seinen Italienzügen gegen die aufmüpfigen oberitalienischen Städte begleitet und auf den großen Kreuzzug ins Heilige Land, immer auf der Suche nach dem mythischen Reich des Priesterkönigs Johannes im fernen Orient. Und natürlich wie er, Baudolino, mit seinen aberwitzigen Ideen ganz nebenbei den Lauf der Weltgeschichte lenkt, ob nun bei der Heiligsprechung Karls des Großen 1165 oder bei der Erfindung der Legende der Heiligen Drei Könige, um dem Erzbischof von Köln, Rainald von Dassel, einen überwältigenden Einzug in seine Domkirche zu sichern. Alles hat Baudolino miterlebt, doch ein Geheimnis kennt nur er ganz allein: Barbarossa, der angeblich im Fluß ertrank, ist mysteriöserweise bereits in der Nacht zuvor ums Leben gekommen. Unfall? Herzversagen? Nein, Mord! Baudolino ahnt, wer der Mörder sein könnte ...