- Hardcover
- Publisher: Bompiani (Oct 2010)
- Language Italian
- ISBN-10: 8845266222
- ISBN-13: 978-8845266225
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.6 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 451,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The story tells of a crook with obscure intentions who, according to the author himself, is going to become the "most cynical and nasty character of all Literature".
In order to serve statesmen, secret services, ministers and police, this enigmatic figure travels around Europe among conspiracies, political intrigues and revolutions.
So, there's no lack of ingredients on Eco's part when narrating this enticing story, built like a 19th century feuilleton, mixing the depths of a classic novel with the elaborate plots of a chilling thriller, the lot enriched with disquieting illustrations (we shouldn't forget that Eco is an emeritus professor of Semiotics - cf. inter alia, his A Theory of Semiotics).
One important point: bar the main character, all other interpreters of this novel are real and have done what they have done. Moreover, even the main character does things that have actually occurred, except that he does them in excess and that they probably have been done by diverse people.
Eco's magic, however, makes it so that, between secret agents, corrupt police, traitors, felon officers and sinful clerics, the only invented character of his book ultimately appears to be the most real of them all.
Eco brilliantly succeeds in painting a suggestive picture d'époque, emotionally involving us in a rich narrative full of surprises and in an exhilarating language that only a semiologist like him could produce.
Now, speaking of language (no pun intended), this book is in its original Italian and, unless you are really, really proficient in that language -- as I am, since I was born and raised in it -- you should wait for its future translation into English, which will possibly be made by the excellent William Weaver (Eco's official translator - cf. Focault's Pendulum etc.).
In order to serve statesmen, secret services, ministers and police, this enigmatic figure travels around Europe among conspiracies, political intrigues and revolutions.
So, there's no lack of ingredients on Eco's part when narrating this enticing story, built like a 19th century feuilleton, mixing the depths of a classic novel with the elaborate plots of a chilling thriller, the lot enriched with disquieting illustrations (we shouldn't forget that Eco is an emeritus professor of Semiotics - cf. inter alia, his A Theory of Semiotics).
One important point: bar the main character, all other interpreters of this novel are real and have done what they have done. Moreover, even the main character does things that have actually occurred, except that he does them in excess and that they probably have been done by diverse people.
Eco's magic, however, makes it so that, between secret agents, corrupt police, traitors, felon officers and sinful clerics, the only invented character of his book ultimately appears to be the most real of them all.
Eco brilliantly succeeds in painting a suggestive picture d'époque, emotionally involving us in a rich narrative full of surprises and in an exhilarating language that only a semiologist like him could produce.
Now, speaking of language (no pun intended), this book is in its original Italian and, unless you are really, really proficient in that language -- as I am, since I was born and raised in it -- you should wait for its future translation into English, which will possibly be made by the excellent William Weaver (Eco's official translator - cf. Focault's Pendulum etc.).
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Molte attese perche l'ultimo libro di Umberto Eco,
purtroppo si e' rivelato noioso, inutilmente complicato, difficile da terminare. Insolito da parte di Eco. Qualche chicca interessante ma non meritavano un testo intero.
purtroppo si e' rivelato noioso, inutilmente complicato, difficile da terminare. Insolito da parte di Eco. Qualche chicca interessante ma non meritavano un testo intero.
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