Umberto Eco is dead and the whole world mourns

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Umberto Eco is dead and the whole world mourns

He belonged to the great writers and Intellectuals: Umberto Eco. After his death, to Express people around the world to Express their grief. Reactions in the network.

Umberto Eco made it, around the world people with his literature, his ingenuity and his wit to inspire. This is also evident after his death: once per second popping up on Twitter with hundreds of new Tweets on – from all over the world. Quotes, memories, favorite books – Literaturfans from Australia, new Zealand, Asia, the USA, South America, South Africa and Europe acknowledge the exceptional author and his work.

Already his first novel was the beginning of the 1980s to the worldwide: “the Name of The Rose” is a historical mystery novel, in the late middle ages plays, but at the same time, countless allusions to the present. The world was this book, more than 50 million Times over the shop counter. Also the film version with Sean Connery in 1986, lured millions of people into the cinemas.

Europeans with Conviction

The head of the Federal Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, looks in Eco, a writer who understood it, the European culture, the European identity and European history in an impressive way in his world best-seller “the Name of The Rose” to represent.

Eco had become in an evening news Interview in September 2015 itself a “pioneer Europe”, a “convinced European”. However, he feared even then that the sense of solidarity diminish. But without a sense of solidarity can Europe do not work, ” he said beforehand.

That his Name in Germany, first with the novel “the Name of The Rose” will nerve him, he gave in the same Interview. His book “The Foucaultsche pendulum” – a mix of history and detective story, appeared in 1988 – would like it much better because it is more Mature.

Excellent Writer

Bundesjustizminister Heiko Maas pecks itself, not a novel, but praises General Ecos detective stories, the “riddled with subtle deeper meaning”, a piece of world literature.

In fact, Ecos novels in more than 60 languages. Internationally successful, he was also with “The island of the day before” (1994), “Baudolino” (2000), “The cemetery in Prague” (2010) and his most recent novel, “the back of the grid”, in the past year is published. The murder mystery plays in 1992 and tells the story of a journalist, for a newspaper to write for, not to buy from the newsstands, but only powerful politicians and Wirtschaftsbossen should be delivered. Eco describes the close ties between the press and politics and does not shy away from the numerous allusions to Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the act. The book is at the same time Mediensatire and Verschwörungsthriller. Ecos criticism of the Italian media landscape and politics holds Italy’s current Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, however, does not depend on it as a great Italian and great Europeans to refer to.

Also, Italy’s culture Minister Dario Franceschini announced via Twitter to word and is called the Eco commends a “genius of the Italian culture in the whole world. Young and bubbly until the last day.”

With only five words expresses the canadian writer and Lyrikern Margaret Atwood’s concern about the Ecos of death.

Characters and words were Ecos passion

Eco was not only writers, but also literary critic and philosopher. As a Professor for Zeichentheorie he taught, among other things, at the University of Bologna and wrote several scholarly volumes, including the “introduction to semiotics” (1968), which has long since become a standard work and thus is essential reading for Literaturstudenten has become. The Swiss philosopher Barbara Bleisch remembers a quote from Eco, that they once in a memo stuck had. A quote that is sure to not only budding researchers in the Humanities encourage the can: “The real lovers of books, they must not all have read. It is important that you know: There is this or that book and you have it available for the future”.

Comforting words about the death of the author finds the German-Polish web activist in Tunisia and blogger Katharina Nocun. Eco will thanks to his exceptional creativity never quite be dead, tweeting you. His work to exist on and therefore always a part of the author.