Best Books By Umberto Eco
List of 5 best books written by Umberto Eco. Check out the booklist.
1. The Name Of The Rose
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the over of night.
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2. The Prague Cemetery
The period is the 19th Century and the place is Europe, moving across from Turin to Prague to Paris. These places and period are dark, mysterious and ghastly for conspiracies that tower over history. Everywhere one finds someone plotting against another and unimaginable violence. There are the Jesuits scheming against the Freemasons, the republicans from Italy strangling priests with their own intestines and there are the French criminals who are busy planning bomb attacks during the day while at nights they celebrate the Black Masses.
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3. The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws into his old family home and searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and diaries kept in the attic. And so Yambo relives his youth: Mussolini, Catholic education, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the flames to capture one simple, innocent image, that of his first love.
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4. Five Moral Pieces
Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today’s world.
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5. Chronicles of a Liquid Society
Written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l’Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition, incisiveness and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, unbridled individualism, conspiracies, the old and the young, mobile phones, mass media, racism, good manners and the crisis in ideological values. It is a final gift to his readers – astute, witty and illuminating.
