Umberto Eco has been a major author in Open Books' catalogue since the very beginning. In 1986, the year of its creation, Open Books published the translation of the award winning and bestselling novel The Name of the Rose and since then, has continued to publish practically all of the works by the world-renowned scholar.

Over the years, Open Books has been dedicated to introducing Eco's fiction as well as his nonfiction works to a broad Korean audience. This extensive effort took a further dimension in 2009 when Open Books published a newly edited and specially designed 26-volume collection of essays titled Eco Mania Collection. The collection provides a chance for general readers, students and academics alike to discover or rediscover Eco's seminal works in semiotics, medievalism, philosophy, art history and literary criticism. It is a new opportunity for Korean readers to enjoy Eco's boundless erudition and great humor not only in his most popular essays like How to Travel with a Salmon (Il secondo diario minimo) or his precious advice about how to write one's thesis (Come si fa una tesi di laurea), reprinted many times already, but also in less famous essays from his impressive bibliography.

Open Books also published the Korean editions of Eco's astonishing art studies On Beauty, On Ugliness, The Infinity of Lists and The Book of Legendary Lands in co-edition with Rizzoli. His latest work from the same collection, On the Shoulders of Giants, will be published in 2020.

Umberto Eco's main Korean translator has traveled extensively to the places featured in Eco's novels and is currently writing an essay based on his travels and research.

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Works by Umberto Eco in translation from Open Books (with year of publication of the Korean edition)
Il nome della rosa (1986)
Il pendolo di Foucault (1990)
La bomba e il generale (1991)
L'isola del giorno prima (1996)
Baudolino (2002)
Storia della bellezza (2005)
La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2008)
Storia della bruttezza (2008)
Vertigine della lista (2010)
Non sperate di liberarvi dei libri (2011)
A passo di gambero (2012)
Il cimitero di Praga (2013)
Costruire il nemico (2014)
Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari (2015)
Numero zero (2018)

Eco Mania Collection (with year of publication of the first Korean edition)
Arte e bellezza nell'estetica medievale (1998)
Diario minimo (2004)
Apocalittici e integrati (2009)
La struttura assente (1998)
Il segno (2000)
Semiologia quotidiana (2009)
Trattato di semiotica generale (2009)
Il superuomo di massa (1994)
Come si fa una tesi di laurea (1994)
Lector in fibula (1996)
Postille al nome della rosa (1992)
Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio
Sugli specchi e altri saggi (2009)
I limiti dell'interpretazione (1995)
Il second diario minimo II (1995)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1997)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1998)
In cosa crede chi non crede? (1998)
Cinque scritti morali (2003)
Kant e l'ornitorinco (2005)
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (2009)
Tra menzogna e ironia (2003)
La Bustina di Minerva (2004)
Sulla letteratura (2005)
Dire quasi la stessa cosa (2010)