Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery

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  • čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
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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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Komentáře • 41

  • @DorothyGTyas
    @DorothyGTyas Před 8 lety +10

    👍 Splendid writer; splendid intellect! 👍

  • @capthawkeye8010
    @capthawkeye8010 Před rokem +4

    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".

  • @Umbriaga
    @Umbriaga Před 12 lety +2

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

  • @pchabanowich
    @pchabanowich Před 9 měsíci +1

    I love this discussion.

  • @amalabdullah1747
    @amalabdullah1747 Před 8 lety +3

    Very inspiring.

  • @antonioricardomartines5933
    @antonioricardomartines5933 Před 7 lety +23

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

  • @kegan51
    @kegan51 Před 2 lety +1

    Brilliant man.

  • @keithwhitlock726
    @keithwhitlock726 Před rokem +2

    His description of the Jesuits is incredibly accurate.

  • @meteoroman100
    @meteoroman100 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @ahmedal-serhan7486
    @ahmedal-serhan7486 Před 8 lety +2

    R.I.P

  • @roc7880
    @roc7880 Před 4 lety +2

    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?

  • @stephensharp3033
    @stephensharp3033 Před 5 lety

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

  • @MegaLunaman
    @MegaLunaman Před 11 lety +2

    Is there foucault at 38:52 ? LOL

  • @AyaxTelemonio
    @AyaxTelemonio Před 11 lety +5

    eco destroyed that militant atheist 34:00

  • @celtick4985
    @celtick4985 Před 8 lety +2

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

  • @suezhu2208
    @suezhu2208 Před 4 lety +2

    Hello, could I put this video in a Chinese video website?
    I won't earn any benefits with this video

    • @StreetLeoi
      @StreetLeoi Před rokem

      你在哪里发?有翻译吗?我正在找有中文字幕的

  • @user-tj9sy3oj2z
    @user-tj9sy3oj2z Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @nusquamesse1248
    @nusquamesse1248 Před 11 lety +2

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

    • @deepblue188
      @deepblue188 Před 3 lety +1

      صع! انا احب الكتب امبيرتو ايكو .

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK Před 11 lety +3

    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
      @monicaangelini3324 Před 4 lety +2

      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

  • @sky1976ful
    @sky1976ful Před 9 lety +2

    Mandrogni!

  • @meio4744
    @meio4744 Před 8 lety +1

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

  • @marciarenonmarcire
    @marciarenonmarcire Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @nusquamesse1248
    @nusquamesse1248 Před 11 lety +2

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

  • @MrElicottero
    @MrElicottero Před 8 lety +9

    I wonder if she could have asked more stupid questions.

  • @AyaxTelemonio
    @AyaxTelemonio Před 11 lety +1

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