An excellent interview! I was there but now I have read the book Pragus Cemetary, and have a much better appreciation of this complex historically-based novel. The main character is disgusting, but as a fictional character, there is an underlying humour to his crazy racism. Great book, but the Name of the Rose is still Eco's finest masterpiece.
I'm reading the book right now & it's already mindblowing. I'm only 50 pages into it & my mind is overflowing. I can tell this is going to be one hell of a ride!
And what of a great writer in the same vein as an Eco....Gore Vidal comes to mind....HISTORY is incredibly important, but more things are important - like facts - than when you just make it all up!
An excellent interview! I was there but now I have read the book Pragus Cemetary, and have a much better appreciation of this complex historically-based novel. The main character is disgusting, but as a fictional character, there is an underlying humour to his crazy racism. Great book, but the Name of the Rose is still Eco's finest masterpiece.
I'm reading the book right now & it's already mindblowing. I'm only 50 pages into it & my mind is overflowing. I can tell this is going to be one hell of a ride!
R. I. P. dear Professor Eco.
Talented man and author, reading the Prague Cemetery now, it's excellent, very much a grown up novel.
Eco is a hero of mine. As is Harold Bloom, famous as a critic of "important" writers; did they ever meet; or comment on one another?
Wondering if there is any interview with Milan Kundera available...
Hoping to reach a small part of your affectionate readers with my next novel, egregio professore🙏🏻
And what of a great writer in the same vein as an Eco....Gore Vidal comes to mind....HISTORY is incredibly important, but more things are important - like facts - than when you just make it all up!
Umberto was at Waterloo.
Who couldn't love Simone Simonini?
@ anthonyspork Apparently :)
And in the end, there was Facebook.
Wait a second Simonini was supposed to be evil??
Maestro e Nobel mancato. Viva Alessandria.
Just watching this makes me feel like some 80 year old WASP.