Talk:Umberto Eco

message: I read in some Italian site comments on his political articles (on 9/11?).
The commenters thought him a pedant showing off his culture but giving no solutions.
Is that an extended opinion?
Yes, it definitely is. Fleurbutterfly 20:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Eco has read many books. His thoughts, most likely, involve the thoughts of the many authors that he has read. If he quotes those authors, then he is merely expressing his thoughts. Only people who are less well-read would think of him as being showy or pedantic. They are envious because they have spent their time doing other things instead of reading. That is common in today’s culture. 98.110.35.22 (talk) 03:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pedant 

message: Eco is a "novelist and philosopher, best known for his novels and essays." That's like saying he's a piano player known for playing the piano, it's ridiculous. Shouldn't the opening be a paragraph, including brief highlights of his life, work (Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum pop to mind) and such, instead of saying he's a novelist who (gasp) writes novels? LeoDV 21:30, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening sentence 

message: The fact that Eco's writings are sometimes occasionally pretentious doesn't mean this page has to be as well. It would be more beneficial for the readers if the author of it was more interested in writing a dictionary entry than a school paper.
More important, however, is the fact that the "Biography and opus" part is all opus and no biography.  I'd like to write the biography myself, but don't know enough about Eco's personal life to be capable of it.
What happened to the rule that we have to sign our every post on WP? Fleurbutterfly 20:46, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  pretentiousness + lack of biography 

message: No, this is by no means  the popular view over here in Italy at any rate!! He has a weekly series in the extremely presitigious and extremely popular magazine L'Espresso which is widely read. I, personally , think that he is often prententious and offers no solutions, etc.. But that does not seem to be a widely shared view OVER HERE. Perhaps his political and social commentary should be mentioned in the Main text??
lacatosias
::you said "I, personally" right? You answered your own delimma. That's your own point of view, and clearly, Umberto Eco is widely respected. Most of us just don't share your sentiments. Fleurbutterfly 20:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  /* Pedant */  

message: Does anybody know if Eco has an official homepage maintained endorsed either by him or his publisher? I'm not finding much with Google.
Also no mention is made in the article of his publisher in Italy, Bompiani in Milan. — Hippietrail 19:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homepage, publisher 

message: What does doctarate mean? It could not be a "dottorato", the equivalent of the English PhD., since it was introduced in Italy only in the late 1980s. I suppose that degree to be more appropriate. AnyFile 22:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  doctorate 

message: In a recent article by Eco on Wikipedia, he mentions disagreeing with a description of one of his books, and says that he personally corrected the text
:According to the article he corrected an interpretation that can't be found on this article, but on Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition. Shouldn't that paragraph be moved to that article? SncBlue 14:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Was he talking about Italian WP?--Shtove 22:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page has been edited by Eco himself 

message: Has anybody here yet seen Librarything.com? Have a look at Umberto Eco's page there and you'll see there are a few works missing from the bibliography here. The page includes works in many languages and many collection, which don't always map 1:1 with collections in other languages:
http://www.librarything.com/author/ecoumberto
— Hippietrail 16:49, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing works 

message: The study of Eco's works - ecology?
sorry - bad joke 
andreas_td 17:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC+2)
: Here's another bad joke:
: The study of Andreas' works - andrology?
: Geir Gundersen 13:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: hahaha! breather...Fleurbutterfly 20:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  a question 

message: I came across a reflection of his in the intro to a book of studies c.2000. It ran something like this: If christianity is not the truth, then the beauty of its concept is at least strong evidence for the existence of god. Does anyone know the citation for this?--Shtove 21:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Umberto Eco is agnostic and he has lost his faith long time ago, so I doubt he said that. Ciacchi 15:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  A cynical, optimistic agnostic. Sounds like Eco to me. Phyte (talk) 00:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

text:  But he writes better than Dan Brown. He makes you think.Fleurbutterfly 20:57, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote on christianity 

message: I changed
"Although his novels often include references to arcane historical figures and texts and his dense, intricate plots tend to take dizzying turns, he has enjoyed a wide audience around the world, with good sales and many translations."
into
"Because his novels often include references to arcane historical figures and texts and his dense, intricate plots tend to take dizzying turns, he has enjoyed a wide audience around the world, with good sales and many translations."
I don't think people really prefer novels with only references to TV figures and sparse, simple plots which are straightforward. Geir Gundersen 13:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  People like complicated stories with arcane figures 

message: He's listed in the Italian atheists category - is this accurate? My impression is that he's an agnostic.--Shtove 16:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don’t know what his position is. But the wikiquote reference is unfortunately worthless: the article claims he said that, but gives absolutely no indication of where or when. —Ian Spackman 15:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atheist? 

message: Don't know if I'm doing this right - never edited Wikipedia before.  But...  Currently reading Foucault's Pendulum and decided to check the author.  Although I could be wrong as I haven't finished it yet the paragraph about it seems to be a minor spoiler.  Can we get a spoiler warning in there or possibly jst reomve the spoiler?  "The game turns dangerous when outsiders learn of The Plan, and believe that the men have really discovered the secret to regaining the lost treasure of the Templars." - THats the particular sentence
Meh. We know this from the first few pages when the narrator is hiding in the museum: a group of nastymen are out to get Hero Protagonist. The entire story is told in flashback. The "spoiler" is no worse, and probably less culpable in wrecking the plot development, than any good movie trailer. You ask a valid question, but it's probably not a real problem.
I think the sentence "We know this from the first few pages when the narrator is hiding in the museum: a group of nastymen are out to get Hero Protagonist." is an oversimplified and unjustified statement. It obviously IS a GIANT spoiler. If you knew it beforehand, how could you complete reading the book and enjoy it? It is obviously one of that "oh! That ending was obvious" statements, which are, 99% of the time, a plain fabrication on the part of the concerned person. I think we need to remove this spoiler or insert a spoiler warning. It certainly ruined any suspense for me. Ntveem 11:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: By that logic we should include a spoiler warning on every article.  The Book of Genesis: [SPOILER ALERT] He did it all in six days and then took a breather.  Or Romeo and Juliet: [SPOILER ALERT] they all (well, most of them) die at the end. Cross Reference (talk) 04:53, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler

message: I know Eco "has been labelled" a postmodernist author. However, much like with categories like "gay people", I doubt is sufficient to categorize him as such. We would ideally need evidence that he self-identfies as a postmodernist, or at least evidence that the classification is undisputed. He is certainly (very much) aware of postmodernism, but that's irrelevant.  dab (𒁳) 18:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: postmodernist

message: I don't agree with (almost) starting the article with the sentence
Recently his 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code,"
since Focault's pendulum is much superior to Da Vinci Code. Citing a source is alright, but the sources must be of some quality, too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.50.160.90 (talk) 21:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Much superior, well written, well planned, than Da Vinci Code. Fleurbutterfly 21:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

text: And may i add that The Name of the Rose is also superior. Fleurbutterfly 21:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't say that I'm a big fan of this sentence in the article either. The comparison doesn't seem important or relevant enough to be in the lead paragraph, and the linked article only mentions Eco in passing. Perhaps something more interesting could be pulled from a better source, e.g. ? Ziggurat 09:32, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable start and source 

message: Hello all, I created a Bibliography of Umberto Eco page.  Please feel free to make it better.
TuckerResearch (talk) 04:23, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: What happened to references? There are barely any anywhere - just lots of POV and 'original research'. I suggest we either strip out the whole lot and start again or start digging up some verifiable facts. Spanglej (talk) 02:06, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are the References? 

message: In this book Mr Eco uses a very unusual mechanism for a murder.
Can anybody, including Mr Eco, explain how the item is a direct copy of the method described in the Arabian Nights in The Story of the Clever Minister?
There probably does not exist any third occuerrence in world literature of this particular method of murder!
Samarendra Narayan Roy, India  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roy.samarendra (talk • contribs) 06:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Name of the Rose 

message: Reference number 7 leads one to an advertisement website, rather than to Eco's Ur-Fascism essay, as it used to and was intended to do.
I'm unfamiliar with the editing history review and editing processes of Wikipedia, but I thought for the time being I could at least raise mention of the problem. Presumably it was changed recently, as I was led from the reference to the essay's correct page less than six months ago.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.169.189.225 (talk) 04:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ur-Fascism essay 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: Amazon has The Prague Cemetery, rather than The Cemetery of Prague for this unreleased book. TuckerResearch (talk) 10:42, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  English title for his latest novel 

message: I read the article twice. 
1.) I didn't read anywhere that he studied history, only that he studied medieval philosophy.
2.) I didn't find any sources that he published scientific works about history of Middle Ages - only aesthetics, anthropology and other philosophical problems.
Medievalist is a historian, as far as I know. For example, professor Anthony Kenny studied Thomas Aquinas, scholasticism and medieval philosophy, but no one considers him a medievalist, only a philosopher.
"Eco, Umberto." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite.  Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. :
"Italian literary critic, novelist, and semiotician" 
Same in this link: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ueco.htm 
:Not a word about medievalist. I edited the article accordingly. 
 Philosopher12 (talk) 14:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eco is a medievalist? 

message: Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: Italian newspaper La Voce del Popolo from Rijeka, Croatia, announced that Umberto Eco wrote a new "light" version of his novel "The Name of the Rose", one of the capital works of 20th century, it would be more interesting and popular to the readers in the 21 century.85.114.62.130 (talk) 15:28, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco in "light" version 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article was conflating anthropologist Moussa Sow with a senegalese footballer identically named.  So, I fixed that.
Eliécer Guillén.200.229.152.200 (talk) 16:22, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Tnx.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Moussa Sow 

message: The description of this is a trifle strange: by most accounts, the Dreyfus Affair and the Protocols were symptoms, not causes of antisemitism, which was firmly in place before either of these occurred.
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thread_title:  The Prague Cemetery 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The article is not displaying any categories. Others IPs tried to put all the categories back but were reverted by claims that some of it were unsourced. I just want to know if there is a good reason to remove all the categories of this article or if it was accidental. Thanks, 179.219.80.232 (talk) 19:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure what happened but I restored the categories. Thanks for noticing.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing all the categories 

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