The Prague Cemetery

Name: The Prague Cemetery
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Autor: Umberto Eco

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A memorable work by Umberto Eco at his best. A treatise on the mechanics of hatred and a kind of synthesis of the history of prejudice, the book caused discomfort in more conservative sectors of Italian society, especially among religious people, for its blending of historical figures with a fictional, cynical, and Machiavellian anti-hero, capable of anything to exact revenge on priests, Jesuits, communists, but, above all, Jews. Filled with conspiracy theories, falsifications, Masonic themes, and details of Italian unification, the heart of the narrative lies in antisemitism. The Prague cemetery also commemorates one of history's most striking episodes of forgery: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a text forged by Tsar Nicholas II's secret police to justify the persecution of the Jews. The writings, believed to have been based on a French text—Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu—described a supposed plan for world domination by the Israelites. They would later serve as Hitler's inspiration for the concentration camps. The odious Simonini, whom the author himself defines as one of the most repulsive literary characters ever created, is a master of disguise and conspiracy. A forger in the service of various governments. From northeastern Italy to Garibaldi's Sicily, from the slums of Paris to German taverns, passing through black masses, the bombing of Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus affair, the Risorgimento, Simonini is all the revolutions, the bad choices, the mistakes of the 19th century, which Eco reconstructs with great historical rigor, between power grabs and revolutions. With the air of a new classic, The Prague Cemetery takes historical lies to new heights and also reveals tools used by forgers and propagandists.

ISBN	978-850-109-284-7
Tradutor	Joana Angélica d’Ávila Melo
Altura	230 mm
Largura	160 mm
Profundidade	26 mm
Lançamento	14/10/2011
Páginas	480

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Sobre o autor

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco nasceu em Alexandria em 1932. Filósofo, medievalista, semiólogo, midiólogo, estreou na ficção em 1980 com O nome da rosa (Prêmio Strega 1981), seguido por O pêndulo de Foucault (1988), A ilha do dia anterior (1994), Baudolino (2000), A misteriosa chama da rainha Loana (2004), O cemitério de Praga (2010) e Número zero (2015). Dentre seus trabalhos de filosofia, crítica literária e semiótica, destacam-se Tratado geral de semiótica (1975), Os limites da interpretação (1990), Kant e o ornitorrinco (1997), Da árvore ao labirinto: estudos históricos sobre o signo e a interpretação (2007), Não contem com o fim do livro, com Jean-Claude Carrière (2009), Construir o inimigo e outros escritos ocasionais (2011) e Scritti sul pensiero medievale [Escritos sobre o pensamento medieval] (2012). Em 2004 publicou o volume ilustrado História da beleza, seguido em 2007 por História da feiura, em 2009 por A vertigem das listas e em 2013 por História das terras e lugares lendários. Reconhecido como um dos mais importantes escritores e pensadores do século XX, grande parte de sua obra se encontra publicada no Brasil pela Editora Record. O autor morreu em 2016.