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Asked what book he would take to a desert island, he answered the telephone book, because "with all those names I could make up marvellous stories."
The events being organised by Eco involve classifications, inventories, numbering, accumulation and litanies.
"There are practical lists such as supermarket shopping lists that enumerate finite numbers and there are poetic lists with no end that are dizzying," he said.
A museum, he added, was "a living list because there are 10,000 different visits through the works that are hung there, and those they make us imagine."
The 77-year-old is the fifth figure to be offered carte blanche by the Louvre after contemporary French composer Pierre Boulez, German artist Anselm Kiefer, French lawyer Robert Badinter and US writer Toni Morrisson.
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The events being organised by Eco involve classifications, inventories, numbering, accumulation and litanies.
"There are practical lists such as supermarket shopping lists that enumerate finite numbers and there are poetic lists with no end that are dizzying," he said.
A museum, he added, was "a living list because there are 10,000 different visits through the works that are hung there, and those they make us imagine."
The 77-year-old is the fifth figure to be offered carte blanche by the Louvre after contemporary French composer Pierre Boulez, German artist Anselm Kiefer, French lawyer Robert Badinter and US writer Toni Morrisson.
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