Umberto Eco
Italian · 1932–2016
Italian semiotician, novelist, and cultural critic whose works bridged scholarly rigor and literary imagination.
Wikipedia ↗“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
English
Travels in Hyperreality ↗ (1986)
“The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000.”
English
Interview, The Guardian ↗ (2011)