The Prague Cemetery

Умберто Эко (р. 1932) – один из крупнейших писателей современной Италии. Знаменитый ученый-медиевист, семиотик, специалист по массовой культуре, профессор Эко в 1980 году опубликовал свой первй роман – «Имя розы», принесший ему всемирную литературную известность. Действие романа разворачивается в средневековом монастыре, где его героям предстоит решить множество философских вопросов и, путем логических умозаключений, раскрыть произошедшее убийство.

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, lay just one man?

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of II Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolini's corpse was a...

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of II Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolini's corpse was a body-double and...

Romaani peategelane, inimpõlgurist dokumendivõltsija Simone Simonini, kelles tõelist kirge äratab vaid lookas toidulaud, pakub oma teeneid eri riikide valitsusametnikele, salateenistustele ja politseile, liigub topeltagentide, äraandlike ohvitseride ja patuelu elavate vaimulike seltskonnas, käib läbi garibaldiinide, jesuiitide, satanistide, vabamüürlastega. Romaani tegevus hargneb 19. sajandil, Itaalia ühendamisest Dreyfusi afäärini, taustaks Siioni tarkade protokollide tekkelugu. Kus iganes...

Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity and wisdom written in his uniquely ironic voice. Written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l’Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition, incisiveness and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, unbridled individualism, conspiracies, the...