Umberto eco numero zero6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() It was a pure pleasure to hear one more refrain from that great orchestra of a mind. I’m sure it will be racked as “minor” Eco, but even minor Eco is worthy of any thinking human’s attention. Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic. ![]() There are joyful bursts of old Eco in here - a group of delirious pages about fake orders in Malta, big passages of mad wordgames - and then, joyfully, a big weird conspiracy plot, Eco’s love of genre in full effect. Reading from our own vantage, we know it’s doomed, of course, and Eco has a lot of fun with layers of short-sightedness and some score-settling knifework upon the Italian newspaper industry as well as the obvious media mogul targets. ![]() ![]() His subject, Braggadocio, is convinced that Mussolinis corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. Colonna is offered a fee he cant refuse to ghost-write a memoir. Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Almost in the manner of Bigend’s “Node” in Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy, an unseen actor is creating a sequence of dummy runs of a newspaper in order to practise causing effects upon the power structures of the day. Listen to Numero Zero by Umberto Eco with a free trial. It’s a short and sweet little book, like a tiny aftershock from FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM, set in the early 1990s and concerning a newspaper that doesn’t exist. If you know me at all, you know I have unholy love for Eco’s work, fiction and non-fiction. NUMERO ZERO was the final Umberto Eco novel. Questo romanzo di Eco non è il più bello che abbia scritto però merita una menzione speciale per lo sconcerto che desta. ![]()
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