Umberto Eco‪.‬

ELEANOR WACHTEL is the host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company and The Arts Today. This interview was initially prepared in collaboration with Mary Stinson and broadcast on Writers & Company. Umberto Eco, you grew up in a small town in northern Italy before, during, and after the fascist regime of the Second World War. I remember your saying once that all the important and dramatic events of your life happened during your childhood.