Umberto Eco Interview: Advice to the Young
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Best-selling Italian novelist Umberto Eco here advises aspiring writers not to take themselves too seriously, but to go step by step and remember that: “You’re 10 per cent inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration.”
If you start off thinking that you’re a true genius and that you’ll be receiving the Nobel Prize any moment, you have a problem: “That kills every literary career.”
Umberto Eco (b. 1932) is an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic and author widely known for his bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’ (Il nome della rosa) (1983). Among his other novels are ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ (Il pendolo di Foucault) (1989), ‘The Island of the Day Before’ (L’isola del giorno prima) (1995), ‘Baudolino’ (2000) and ‘The Prague Cemetery’ (Il cimitero di Praga) (2010). He is the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marina, President of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities, University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. He divides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation house near Urbino, Italy - both residences have extensive libraries (30,000 volume and 20,000 volume). For more about him see: www.umbertoeco....
Umberto Eco was interviewed in his apartment in Milan by Tonny Vorm in May 2015.
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
Love this man and his fierce, yet playful intellect. RIP
May he rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us
6-7 years for a book - no wonder Name of the Rose is one of the best novels ever!
rest in peace :'(
I carry a copy of Travels in Hyperreality with me everywhere. Those Stories and essays are witty and inspirational like no one but a true master of the romantic language could produce.
Un titan moderno. EPD Umberto Eco
Just looked up the book and ordered a copy. Thankyou for sharing.
He was an excellent author.
Ci manchi!
R.i.p Umberto Eco
No one should publish anything before the age of eighty-four - unless they fought in a war, survived a real famine, or received a sincere compliment from their mother-in-law...or all of the above.
Many good people with great ideas to offer the world do not live to the age of 84. Many people face incredible hardship that can give them as much insight as an 84-year-old at a shockingly young age. Look at Lili Boulanger.
His books are pure joy.
Awesome!
amazing words from amazing novelist :-)
He doesn't consider himself as a novelist, Academic Scholar
@DHRUV VLOGZ bro I know that you are come from study chapter class 12th the interview 😅
B.I.P / Be In Peace
Rip professor
I miss him... i wish i had this opportunity to meet him... but was too young... just 16 (for my late bloom perioud is 2 young)
Great advice !!!...
thanks eco the dolphin
yes yes, the interview -_-
I hate when people say "books don't make money." That's true for an enormous amount of them. But who can afford 6-7 years working on ONE book?!? How?
you are amazing..thank you for all master!
RIP ㅠㅠ
RIP
Inmortal, eternal, a giant.
THE GREATEST.
❤
meanwhile, those Hig (for an example) Fanboys are Blindly Ignoring those like even your own share of exampled warnings, Eco....
Tragically to this Day.
Fare well
Più lo ascolto e più non lo capisco.
RIP
RIP