The Prague cemetery
By: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
Contributors: Dixon, Richard
Publisher: Harvill Secker; Random House Export
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781846554926; 9781846554919
Work titles: Cimitero di Praga
Description: 19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.