I have been a fan of Umberto Eco’s writing for years, he is a sort of ‘real’, and thus seriously intellectual version of the (much more popular, but lamer) protagonist in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. His earlier novel, Foucault’s Pendulum can be seen as a thinker’s version of the Brown blockbuster (i.e. harder to read, and worth every bit of effort).
Eco’s latest opus, the Prague Cemetery, is his take on the darkness which circles the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I just got my Amazon Kindle version (for the iPad) and hope that you get a chance to read any of Professor Eco’s works…
Umberto Eco
http://www.umbertoeco.com/en
Nineteenth-century Europe – from Turin to Prague to Paris – abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses at night.
Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man?
And what if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. "The Prague Cemetery" is Umberto Eco at his most exciting, a novel immediately hailed as his masterpiece.
Umberto Eco on ‘The Prague Cemetery’
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/11/15/umberto-eco-on-%E2%80%98the-prague-cemetery%E2%80%99/
The Prague Cemetery
http://www.amazon.com/The-Prague-Cemetery-ebook/dp/B005LVQZQ6/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2
Foucault’s Pendulum
http://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-ebook/dp/B003WUYPI8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2
