However, he gained worldwide acclaim for a 1980 novel that had such working titles as "Adso of Melk" and "Murder in the Abbey."  
This author continues to write "The Matchbook of Minerva," a weekly column in one of his country's major periodicals.  In 1966 he published his monograph on the poetry of Joyce and a summation of Finnegan's Wake, and two years later he wrote The Absent Structure.  However, he gained worldwide acclaim for a 1980 novel that had such working titles as "Adso of Melk" and "Murder in the Abbey."  FTP, name this leading figure in the field of semiotics, the Italian novelist of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose
This author continues to write "The Matchbook of Minerva," a weekly column in one of his country's major periodicals.  
Umberto Eco