Italian explorer of the nature of meaning was a best-selling novelist and towering figure in philosophy and academiaUmberto Eco,whose death at 84 has been announced by the Italian media, leapt from being an internationally renowned philosopher to become an author of best-selling novels.
Best known for his 1980 historical mystery novel The Name of the Rose, or which has been translated into more than 40 languages,Eco created fiction bearing all the hallmarks of his academic work as a semiologist as he explored the link between fantasy and reality.
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Source: theguardian.com