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This conversation took place at Kensington Town Hall on 19th November 2011.
Speakers:
UMBERTO ECO: Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist
PAUL
HOLDENGRÄBER: Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library where
he has interviewed and hosted President Clinton, Norman Mailer, Spike
Lee and Jay-Z
Event info:
CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA & THE NOVEL
A Conversation with Umberto Eco.
* Writing fiction about the real
* Exploring the persistence of conspiracies
* Adapting "The Name of the Rose" for the internet generation
* Grasping the infinity of lists
* Exploring the future of books
* Losing yourself in a 50,000-volume library
These
are some of the topics Umberto Eco will be discussing with Paul
Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library.
Their
wide-ranging conversation will in part focus 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.
This conversation took place at Kensington Town Hall on 19th November 2011.
Speakers:
UMBERTO ECO: Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist
PAUL
HOLDENGRÄBER: Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library where
he has interviewed and hosted President Clinton, Norman Mailer, Spike
Lee and Jay-Z
Event info:
CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA & THE NOVEL
A Conversation with Umberto Eco.
* Writing fiction about the real
* Exploring the persistence of conspiracies
* Adapting "The Name of the Rose" for the internet generation
* Grasping the infinity of lists
* Exploring the future of books
* Losing yourself in a 50,000-volume library
These
are some of the topics Umberto Eco will be discussing with Paul
Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library.
Their
wide-ranging conversation will in part focus 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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