Umberto Eco Quotes


The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.


Citations

Eco, Umberto. How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Translated by William Weaver, Harcourt Brace, 1994, p. 119.

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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Novelist

Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory, and Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.