Prague Cemetery ( Italian: Il cimitero di Praga ) is the sixth novel by the Italian writer Umberto Eco , published in October 2010. The name refers to the famous Prague landmark . The book became a bestseller in Italy, Spain, Argentina, Mexico [1] .
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| Genre | Novel |
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| Original language | Italian |
| Date of writing | 2010 |
| Date of first publication | 2010 |
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Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Facts and Fiction
- 3 Publications of the novel
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Story
Paris , March 1897: Captain Simone Simonini - an adventurer, a forger, a secret agent - recalls and describes on the pages of his diary how he was drawn into political intrigues that greatly influenced the future of Europe.
The main storyline of the novel covers the period from March 24, 1897 to November 20, 1898. In the diary entries of the protagonist, events of his life, beginning in 1830, are described with varying degrees of detail.
Facts and Fiction
According to Eco, “the heroes of this novel are not imaginary. With the exception of the protagonist, they all actually lived, including his grandfather, the author of a mysterious message for Abbot Barruel , which gave rise to all modern anti-Semitism . ”
Eco continues:
The nineteenth century was full of monstrous and mysterious events: the mysterious death of Ippolito Nievo , the falsification of the Protocols of the Sions of Zion , which inspired Hitler to exterminate the Jews, the Dreyfus affair and the endless intrigues organized by the secret police of different countries, masons, Jesuit conspiracies and other events whose authenticity can never be installed, but which serve as forage for feuilleton 150 years later.
Other real-life characters in the novel are Sigmund Freud , Leo Taxil , Eugene Sue and Maurice Joli . The main topics are conspiracy theories , freemasonry and palladism , or devil worship .
Eco fills the novel with other books, explores 19th century novels, from which information was taken in the Protocols of Zion, structured into a single essay. The spirit of the novel was Alexander Dumas, the father , in particular, the roll call with his novel "Joseph Balsamo" (1846) is visible.
Publications of the novel
- Eco, Umberto. Prague cemetery. Per. with ital. E. Kostyukovich. AST , Corpus Series, 2011. - 560 p. - ISBN 978-5-271-38543-8 .
Notes
- ↑ LIBROS MAS VENDIDOS, BESTSELLERS - Umberto Eco se afianza entre los autores más vendidos . Impactousa.com. Date of treatment October 12, 2010. Archived on September 4, 2012.