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  • With the benefit of hindsight, it is more obvious that Pratchett was writing in the same cultural vein as the "literary" writers of the period, such as Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter: these were stories about the nature of story-telling, about how narratives shape our lives and condition our expectations.

    unknown title 2009

  • Umberto Eco is a novelist and Jean-Claude Carrière is a screenwriter.

    Will Books Survive? Raymond Zhong 2011

  • Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one.

    Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire | John Naughton 2011

  • "The Prague Cemetery," Umberto Eco's phantasmagorical revisiting of the anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," is a literary tour de force.

    Twelve Months of Reading 2011

  • That's the premise of the new novel by Umberto Eco.

    Ideas Calendar: Nov. 5-11 2011

  • Traditional public scholars - Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Jay Gould - spoke mainly through books, magazines and op-ed pieces.

    'Tolkien Professor' brings Middle-earth to iTunes Daniel de Vise 2011

  • Traditional public scholars - Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Jay Gould - spoke mainly through books, magazines and op-ed pieces.

    'Tolkien Professor' brings Middle-earth to iTunes Daniel de Vise 2011

  • "The Prague Cemetery," Umberto Eco's phantasmagorical revisiting of the anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," is a literary tour de force.

    Twelve Months of Reading 2011

  • Traditional public scholars - Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Jay Gould - spoke mainly through books, magazines and op-ed pieces.

    'Tolkien Professor' brings Middle-earth to iTunes Daniel de Vise 2011

  • When Umberto Eco's latest novel was published in Italy last year, it received a scathing review from the Vatican-endorsed newspaper Osservatore Romano.

    Finding the Origin of the Vile Sam Sacks 2011

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