http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#umberto-eco <cite>The Name of the Rose</cite> is best taken straight, and I'm not sure that <cite>Foucault's Pendulum</cite> should be taken at all. <cite>The Island of the Day Before</cite> is better than <cite>Foucault,</cite> but the blurbs on my paperback copy were so over-blown as to be embarrassing. I ought to try reading the semiotic stuff again, but I'm so skeptical of the whole <a href="semiotics.html">semiotic program</a> that it hardly seems worth it. <ul>See also: <li><a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~mcmesser/eco/">The Umberto Eco Page</a> [A fan's] </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>How to Travel with a Salmon</cite> <li>"Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts" (<a href="http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/Eco_91.pdf">PDF, 717k</a>) <li><cite>The Search for a Perfect Language</cite> <li><cite>Six Walks in the Fictional Woods</cite> </ul>