Umberto Eco: Birthday Remembrance

January 5th, 1932

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Most people know Eco because of “The Name of the Rose”. I think I saw the movie and wasn’t impressed, and only read the novel much later because of it. My introduction to Eco was through “Foucault’s Pendulum”, because it was a cracking fun story about conspiracy theories before people like Dan Brown came along, took it…