Umberto Eco receives honorary doctorate from Łódź University
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John Beauchamp
25.05.2015 12:34
Italian writer, philosopher and linguist Umberto Eco has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Łódź.
Umberto Eco picks up his honorary doctorate from Łódź University, 24.05.2015 Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Michałowski
A citation recalls that Eco has been recognised as one of the world’s fifty most important contemporary thinkers and describes him as one of the leading humanists and literary scholars of our time.
In his address at the university, Umberto Eco spoke of his long-standing contacts with Polish culture. He said that he loves the music of Chopin, read the novel Quo Vadis by the Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer Henryk Sienkiewicz at the age of twelve and has a high opinion of Polish poets Wislawa Szymborska and Stanislaw Jerzy Lec and philosophers Wladysław Tatarkiewicz and Leszek Kołakowski.
The ceremony of Umberto Eco’s honorary doctorate was part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the university.
Several of Eco’s novels, notably ‘The Name of the Rose’ and ‘ Foucault’s Pendulum’, have been bestsellers in Poland. (mk/jb)
Source: PAP