Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery

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Umberto Eco is a literary master. The bestselling author of The Name of the Rose spins prose at once compelling and complex, full of facts, twists, and details born of scholarship in philosophy, medievalism, and semiotics. His latest novel, The Prague Cemetery, summons a world of assassination and intrigue and serves up a conspiracy theory rooted in 19th-century history, inspired by an era Eco calls "full of monstrous and mysterious events." All of the characters, except its main one, really existed. It poses the question, what if every conspiracy, in a world full of conspiracies, were connected by a single, evil genius, who turned modern history into a massive diatribe that still governs how we think? Eco reads from his new book and discusses his work with Chicago Tribune cultural critic Julia Keller.
This program is generously underwritten by Lois and Harrison Steans and is presented in partnership with the Chicago Tribune.
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[@Umbriaga]

Grazie tante thanks for bringing him in again never miss his novels!

[@DorothyGTyas]

👍 Splendid writer; splendid intellect! 👍

[@amalabdullah1747]

Very inspiring.

[@pchabanowich]

I love this discussion.

[@antonioricardomartines5933]

I bet Prof. Umberto Eco has hidden some sort of code into this book. Perhaps into the food ingredients lists :)

[@buckiemohawk3643]

He is a professor of semiotics lol

[@capthawkeye8010]

I always admired the joke Eco makes that Simonini "is a racist-he hates everyone". Since Simon hates everyone-he does not perceive himself to be a bigot. He holds all of mankind in contempt. This is and always has been a tempting delusion of certain kinds of people to rationalize their sociopathy. The irrationality of reasoning like "I can't be a racist if I hate everyone equally".

[@kegan51]

Brilliant man.

[@keithwhitlock726]

His description of the Jesuits is incredibly accurate.

[@roc7880]

He said that we despised Italian politics and admired the American one. I wonder what would Eco say today about Trump and the American republic?

[@meteoroman100]

14:32 - List of lists sounds well python, insn' it? :)

[@stephensharp3033]

In another video he refers to Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

[@ahmedal-serhan7486]

R.I.P

[@MegaLunaman]

Is there foucault at 38:52 ? LOL

[@AyaxTelemonio]

eco destroyed that militant atheist 34:00

[@mariocoutinho125]

He didn't, he was an atheist.

[@celtick4985]

good geezer ........in any language

[@JAMAICADOCK]

Eco thinks the Protocols are a forgery - but all the same, I think he loves the esoteric. The meeting of a secret Jewish society in a Prague Cemetery is just a delicious conceit. But I suppose modern mythology like the old stuff, has its artistic merit.

[@monicaangelini3324]

He does not think. The protocols is a forgery.And if you read the book, or follow Mr. Eco's essaus, he mocks what you call the exoteric

[@nusquamesse1248]

Umberto Eco huwa wieħed mill-akbar kittieba ta 'kull żmien!

[@deepblue188]

صع! انا احب الكتب امبيرتو ايكو .

[@user-tj9sy3oj2z]

forgive me.for blessing and rebearth of books and our heritage-new moves and dont let them....You can...be together..save you heaven

[@sky1976ful]

Mandrogni!

[@marciarenonmarcire]

Ovviamente in Italia non se l'è filato nessuno....

[@meio4744]

If an old lady dresses as a girl it's a creepy horror movie.

[@nusquamesse1248]

Huwa jsemmi Dante u Homer. Imma inħoss Mr Eco wkoll mixjiet ma Petrarch, Boccaccio, u ħafna oħrajn.

[@MrElicottero]

I wonder if she could have asked more stupid questions.

[@AyaxTelemonio]

Yahweh was the god of war in israel, so what.