![]() A hack and ghostwriter, Colonna (whose name means “column”), is long on brains if short on talent as he says, “Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners.…The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.” Ah, if he only knew the half of it, for just when it seems that he has no prospects left, he’s summoned to pen a memoir by a journalist who’s cooking up a Potemkin village of a newsmagazine, funded by a magnate who keeps secret the fact that Domani (tomorrow) will never actually hit the newsstand. ![]() ![]() ![]() The time is June 1992-meaningful to Italian readers as the inauguration of an ostensibly clean period in a notoriously corrupt politics. Working territory much resembling that of Foucault’s Pendulum, Eco ( The Prague Cemetery, 2011, etc.) spins a knotty yarn. The sun is shining, the world is spinning, and the great Italian novelist and semiotician has a new book-which means that a conspiracy theory must be afoot somewhere close by. ![]()
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