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Translation is the art of failure.
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| Birth: | 5th January, 1932 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher |
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Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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