Who is Umberto Eco and what does he
have to do with the Eco Kettle?

Umberto Eco is a prolific Italian author and he has absolutely nothing to do with the Eco Kettle! Whatever gave you that impression? However, I'm sure that were he to find out about The Eco Kettle, Umberto would be chuffed to bits that this superb energy-saving kettle had been named after him.

 Of course, I'm not going to tell him that it's actually named after it's awesome ability to save energy, save water, save your time and your money. That would be mean and I make it a personal rule never to upset Italians. On the other hand, I'm sure a man of his intelligence would be willing to accept dual-meaning on the word ECO. He'd appreciate that this environmentally friendly technology deserves its 'green' eco title. And he could still fool his friends into believing that it actually had been named after him!

Well, all that aside. Let's focus on Umberto for a bit. After all this is his page really. Just imagine how good he would have felt making tea with the Eco Kettle as he spent hour after hour penning such books as:

Fiction
The Name of the Rose
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Island of the Day Before
Baudolino

General Nonfiction
Misreadings
Apocalypse Postponed
Travels in Hyperreality
Postscript to The Name of the Rose
Travels with a Salmon
Kant and the Platypus
Five Moral Pieces

Language & Literary Criticism
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce
Limits of Interpretation
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
The Search for the Perfect Language
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy
Experiences in Translation

The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Pierce*
Fictions Updated: Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics*
Talking of Joyce*

Semiotics
The Open Work
A Theory of Semiotics
The Role of the Reader

Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
A Semiotic Landscape*
Carnival!*
Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology*
Frontiers in Semiotics*
Meaning and Mental Representations*
Universe and the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture*
On the Medieval Theory of Signs*

Children’s Books
The Bomb and the General
The Three Astronauts

Collaborations & Contributions
The Picture History of Inventions from Plough to Polaris
The Bond Affair
The People’s Comic Book: Red Women’s Detachment, Hot on the Trail, and Other Chinese Comics
Charles M. Schulz: 40 Years of Life and Art*
Zeitgeist in Babel: The Post-Modernist Controversy*
The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968*
The Future of the Book*
The Cult of Vespa*
Regina Maria Anzenberger Presents 22 Photographers*
The Story of Time*
Belief or Nonbelief?
Conversations About the End of Time*
Shadows of Reason*

Italian Works
Il miracolo di san Baudolino*
Storia dei Rosa Croce*
Semiosi naturale e parola nei Promessi Sposi*
Cinque scritti morali
Tra menzogna e ironia

(*These works only contain Eco contributions)

Eco Umberto, you may not be named after the world's most awesome energy-saving tea kettle, known as the Eco Kettle, but you are still one awesome writing machine! Go to Amazon if you want to get some of Umberto's great books. To find out about his hot and steamy namesake, click here or visit the official EcoKettle.com website.

 

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