Umberto Eco is one of the fathers of modern literature, who once decided to disguise a treatise on semiotics as a historical detective story, so much so that he settled in the hearts of readers forever.
“I belong to a lost generation, and I feel comfortable in the company of the same lost and lonely.” Umberto Eco
In a sense, the decade opened with his Prague Cemetery, the last outstanding text of the great Italian, who will not be in six years.
“Prague Cemetery” completed Eco's brilliant career in literature and everything that he represented with his work. The novel takes you into the dark thickets of 19th century political intrigue, bombards the reader with conspiracy theories, Freemasonry, literary forgeries, and juggles with a mixture of history and fiction. Once Eco erased forever the boundaries between "elite" and "mass" literature, proving that they actually do not exist. His "Prague Cemetery" is another strong argument in this theory.
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