Italian philosopher of semiotics and novelist who wrote The Name of the Rose — a medieval mystery that is simultaneously a semiotic treatise — and developed important theories of interpretation and meaning.
A Theory of Semiotics: the foundational academic account of sign systems after Saussure and Peirce. The Name of the Rose: the most successful literary-philosophical novel since The Magic Mountain — a detective story about books, signs, and interpretation. Foucault's Pendulum: conspiracy theories and the dangers of over-interpretation. The Limits of Interpretation: against unlimited semiosis.
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