![]() ![]() While it was interesting to learn about, it would have been nicer if there were more details that tied into certain events in his life. The story starts off promisingly, focusing on the protagonist's failure to graduate from college due to his knowledge of German and his attempts to translate novels into that same language. In a way, this story is shorter and easier to follow, as it focuses on a failed writer at odds with the many paranoid thoughts of a newspaper editor (correct me if I'm wrong). The saddest part about it is that it doesn't have the same magic as any of his earlier works. The first novel that I read from him was "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana", and before I got to his other works, such as "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Name of the Rose", QL exposed me to some of the author's trademarks, such as a sense of erudition, the feeling that you're trying to solve a puzzle, and the worlds that he creates in his stories, which are marked by self-awareness, deep reflection, and a wide range of knowledge from various sources, including history, literature, and semiotics.įast forward to 2015, and Eco has just come out with his latest, "Numero Zero". ![]() I've been a huge fan of Umberto Eco since middle school. ![]()
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