Umberto Eco: Frasi in inglese

Umberto Eco era semiologo, filosofo e scrittore italiano. Frasi in inglese.

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“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.”

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Umberto Eco libro Il nome della rosa

The Name of the Rose (1980)

“How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.”

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Umberto Eco libro Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) Chapter Six: "Fictional Protocols"

“I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.”

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Quoted in Myriem Bouzaher's introduction to the French version of The Name of the Rose, Postille al Nome della Rosa, Page 18 (1985)

“In short, to remember is to reconstruct in part on the basis of what we have learned or said since. That's normal, that's how we remember. I tell you this to encourage you to reactivate some of these profiles of excitation, instead of simply digging obsessively in an effort to find something that's already there, as shiny and new as you imagine it was when you first set it aside … Remembering is a labor, not a luxury.”

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Umberto Eco libro The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004)

“A sack," Baudolino explained, like a man who knows a trade well, "is like a grape harvest: you have to divide the tasks. There are those who press the grapes, those who carry off the must in the tuns, those who cook for others, others who go to fetch the good wine from last year…. a sack is a serious job,”

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Umberto Eco libro Baudolino

Origine: Baudolino (2000), Chapter 2, "Baudolino meets Niketas Choniates"

“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

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Umberto Eco libro Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) Chapter Four: "Possible Woods"

“There, Master Niketas," Baudolino said, "when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. … There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.”

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Umberto Eco libro Baudolino

Baudolino (2000)

“In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.”

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Preface to the American edition of Travels in Hyperreality (1986)

“I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.”

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"On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death" in La mort et l'immortalié, edited by Frédéric Lenoir (2004)

“The language of Europe is translation.”

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Statement in a lecture at the Assises de la Traduction littéraire in Arles (14 November 1993) http://www.eutrio.be/language-europe-translation

“The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.”

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Umberto Eco libro Il nome della rosa

William of Baskerville
The Name of the Rose (1980)

“That man is … odd," I dared say to William.
"He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.”

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Umberto Eco libro Il nome della rosa

The Name of the Rose (1980)

“The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love.”

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Umberto Eco libro Baudolino

Origine: Baudolino (2000), Chapter 7, "Baudolino makes the Poet write love letters and poems to Beatrice"

“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.”

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"Can Television Teach?" in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12

“The emperor of the Latins — who hasn't been a Latin himself since the days of Charlemagne — is the successor of the Roman emperors — the ones of Rome, I mean, not those of Constantinople. But to make sure he's emperor, he has to be crowned by the pope, because the law of Christ has swept away the false law, the law of liars. To be crowned by the pope, the emperor also has to be recognized by the cities of Italy, and each of them kind of goes his own way, so he has to be crowned king of Italy — provided, naturally, that the Teutonic princes have elected him. Is that clear?”

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Umberto Eco libro Baudolino

Origine: Baudolino (2000), Chapter 3, "Baudolino explains to Niketas what he wrote as a boy"

“There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but towards hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.”

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Umberto Eco libro Il nome della rosa

William of Baskerville http://books.google.com/books?id=XY2vXKsHbzIC&q=&quot;There+is+only+one+thing+that+arouses+animals+more+than+pleasure+and+that+is+pain+Under+torture+you+are+as+if+under+the+dominion+of+those+grasses+that+produce+visions+Everything+you+have+heard+told+everything+you+have+read+returns+to+your+mind+as+if+you+were+being+transported+not+toward+heaven+but+towards+helll+Under+torture+you+say+not+only+what+the+inquisitor+wants+but+also+what+you+imagine+might+please+him+because+a+bond+this+truly+diabolical+is+established+between+you+and+him&quot;&pg=PA73#v=onepage <br class="br">The Name of the Rose (1980)

“In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.”

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Umberto Eco libro The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004)

“After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.”

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Umberto Eco libro Serendipities

Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)

“I am mimetic. If I write a book set in the seventeenth century, I write in a Baroque style. If I’m writing a book set in a newspaper office, I write in Journalese.”

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quoted in Marco Belpoliti, " Umberto Eco: How I Wrote my Books http://en.doppiozero.com/materiali/interviste/umberto-eco-how-I-wrote-my-books" (2015)

“The basic principle [of hermetic drift semiotics] is not only that the similar can be known through the similar but also that from similarity to similarity everything can be connected with everything else, so that everything can be in turn either the expression or the content of any other thing.”

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U. Eco (1990), The limits of Intepretation, as quoted in Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok (2020), The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics https://books.google.it/books?id=NUK0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53.