Umberto Eco on BBC

[Bekah]

Oh thank you,  Charles.  I enjoyed listening to Eco.  

 I read The Name of the Rose years and years ago and when I read Foucault's Pendulum I enjoyed  it even more than Rose.   Since then,  I've read all of his fiction and 4 or 5 of his many non-fictions and imo,  the fiction has  gone downhill since FP.  Too much insider semiotics philosophy and not enough story,  although Baudolino was okayish.    Still,  I'm looking forward to The Prague Cemetery which is apparently about, among other things,  the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,  a huge 19th century anti-semitic propaganda lie.    (Yeah, what Dan Brown picked up on later.)  About 8 or 10 years ago (a guess) Will Eisner, the cartoonist,  wrote a graphic non-fiction book about this ugly tale  for which  Eco wrote the Introduction.   Very good book -   "The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."   

His non-fiction is quite interesting, varied, mostly text books and collections of columns for the  L'Espresso, an Italian weekly.  Some other material.  Yes,  he can be a funny guy.   

Bekah

On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:52 AM, David Morris wrote:

> I read Foucault's Pendulum soon after it first was published, and
> concluded that Ecco (or at least this novel) is extremely overrated.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> He's a funny guy....
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00kwp40
>> 
>> 
>> love,
>> cfa
>>