Andrea Cirla
October 21, 1999 一 Interview of Umberto Eco by Silvia Lemus for “Tratos y retratos” (Canal 22 – Canal Cultural de México). The philosopher and academic, named Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, spoke about his participation in the early years of Italian television and also shared his vision of semiotics, the discipline on which he focused much of his work.
Umberto Eco distinguished himself for his academic work with works such as “Apocalypse Postponed”, “The Open Work”, “The Absent Structure”, “A Theory of Semiotics”, “How to Write a Thesis”, “History of Beauty”, “On Ugliness”, and in the literary field with works such as “Baudolino”, “The Prague Cemetery”, “The Island of the Day Before,” and his famous “The Name of the Rose”.
He is considered one of the most relevant intellectuals of the 20th century due to his theoretical contributions and analyses on the world of communication, aesthetics, semiotics and avant-garde artistic production, among others.