Umberto Eco dead at 84
 

One of my all time favorite writers. I must of read The Name of the Rose 7 or 8 times.

Many of his other books are great, too. Baudolino, Foucault's Pendulum.

RIP.

RIP Umberto Eco :(

ripㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

The who???

Enjoyed his work too. Wish I could read him in his native language.

Requiescat in pace

The movie didn't do the book justice.

He was a great writer.R.I.P

Rip, great author he was... :(

I used to read his books back when I was smarter than I am now.

I love the movie. Haven't read the book though.

RIP

Exactly! I don't read, LOL

hahaha. suckers!

he wrote the who?

RIP legend.

considering his last book not surprising why "they" took him out.

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R.I.P Umberto

I can (not fluent, but able to read along at a reasonable pace), and it is really amazing. He uses language like a song. For instance, upon coming into a church, his character says it was lit by "Candelini, candele, e cadelone" the translation is "Tapers, candles, and votive lights" ... still beautiful, but doesn't capture the way Eco uses the italian to evoke the varying sizes of candles with only the suffix.