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[close] Hommage de Teri Wehn-Damisch à Umberto Eco (1932-2016). Mondialement connu pour ses romans, l'écrivain italien était parvenu à séduire à la fois le public et la critique en démystifiant la culture savante pour la rendre accessible à tous. Portrait joyeux d'un penseur pluriel, qui fut à la fois historien du Moyen Âge, essayiste, sémiologue et critique de la culture de masse.

[close] George interviews author Umberto Eco.

[close] This conversation took place at Kensington Town Hall on 19th November 2011. Speakers: UMBERTO ECO: Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER: Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library where he has interviewed and hosted President Clinton, Norman Mailer, Spike Lee and Jay-Z Event info: CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA & THE NOVEL A Conversation with Umberto Eco. * Writing fiction about the real * Exploring the persistence of conspiracies * Adapting "The Name of the Rose" for the internet generation * Grasping the infinity of lists * Exploring the future of books * Losing yourself in a 50,000-volume library These are some of the topics Umberto Eco will be discussing with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library. Their wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery. The book is an historical pseudo-reconstruction set in a 19th-century Europe teeming with secr