My favorite writer

I admire several writers, and some have been significant in my life. But I must highlight one. His name is Umberto Eco.

Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in an Italian town called Alessandria. He was a novelist, semiotic, philosopher and essayist. We can speak of him as a novelist, as a philosopher and as an essayist. Its influence comes mainly from the called group of 63, which, along with other intellectuals, was a literary avant-garde movement that developed a certain affinity with the mass media. However, many of his articles openly criticize their role or even the internet.

As an essayist and semiotic, one of his most notable and important works is Opera aperta (1962), work where he proposes to give a new look to art, in the context of crisis in which it is in the twentieth century. On the other hand, his facet as a novelist is later than that of an essayist, but it is still relevant. His main work is Il nome della rosa (1980), which addresses, through the resolution of a case, a controversial theological dispute of the fourteenth century.