Umberto Eco on BBC

[Charles Albert]

I like his explanation for the early "benign" anti-semitism....


For those who may be unaware, there is also a great series of podcasts from
the BBC on the History of Mathematics.

Between the eccentricities of the subjects and the droll delivery of the
commentator there are plenty of chuckles to be had...


love,
cfa
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
> >>
>
>
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