I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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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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