Fact

Umberto Eco is the greatest living writer in the world today.

This book must be read. I even spent the whole of Sunday night reading, not a wink of sleep, because I could not put it down. That has never happened to me before.

http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_humanitas90.html

I also want to mention William Weaver, the man responsible for translating the original Italian into English. I bet everyone always forgets the translator. Well, almost everyone.