Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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Umberto Eco was in conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library.
Their wide-ranging conversation in part focused on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery. The book is an historical pseudo-reconstruction set in a 19th-century Europe teeming with secret service forgeries, Jesuit plots, murders and conspiracies, and covering everything from the unification of Italy, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It has been criticised by both the Vatican-backed newspaper the Osservatore Romano and the Chief Rabbi of Rome.
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