Umberto Eco Quotes


They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and
hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by
their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit
its nose.


Citations

Eco, Umberto. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Translated by Geoffrey Brock, Harcourt, 2005.

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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.