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The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered. - Umberto Eco
" "The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
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About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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Dedalus
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Umberto Ecco
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Umberto Eccounstino
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Humberto Eco
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Umberto Eko
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Oumperto Eko
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Eco Umberto
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U. Eco
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Dostoevsky was writing about losers. The main character of The Iliad, Hector, is a loser. It’s very boring to talk about winners. The real literature always talks about losers. Madame Bovary is a loser. Julien Sorel is a loser. I am doing only the same job. Losers are more fascinating. Winners are stupid … because usually they win by chance
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