Simonini is the Forest Gump of anti-Semitism. He is the only fictional character in the book, but everything he does has real consequences.The question that first comes to mind when you meet a conspiracy theorist or other fanatic is "do they actually believe this stuff?" The answer is both yes an...
هي تحديدا تستحق ملخصا ولكن لاحقا One needs too much background info on the real story of the Protocols to really enjoy this book.
This is the second book I read by this author, the first being Bauldolino.In both of these novels he relates how, in the past, what we cherish or respect as truth were constructed for gain or profit or both.In Bauldolino it is the Shroud of Turin and the head of John the Baptist (he has six or se...
Awful! Siyasi tarih dersi aldığım yıllarda bu kitabı okusaydım her şey daha bir kafama girerdi:)
إن كنت ستقرأ إسم الوردة فاترك خيالك وراءكفأنت بكل تأكيد لست بحاجة إليهفهنا ستجد دقائق الأشياء تتجلى وكل تفصيلة صغيرة تتوهج أمامكلست بحاجة لتخيل شكل الغرفة أو حجم المتاهةأنت بحاجة لعقلك واعٍ ولكل ما تحمل من حنكة لكي تحاول أن تفهم عند تتمة القراءةما مدى رمزية المتاهة تلك وما هي التأويلات التي يمكنن...
I read parts of this (I couldn't read the middle hundred pages) as part of a project to read novels with images. Eco calls this "An Illustrated Novel," partly alluding to the comic books that he remembers from his childhood. I found the book intolerable. 1: The narrator's knowledgeable voiceWell-...
PLAYFUL:An Opening GambolWhile I first read this novel in 2009, I bought a second-hand copy in May, 2013 for $7, which I thought was a bargain price for the degree of pleasure it's given me.Only when I was half way through did I notice a sheet of white paper slipped into the last pages.It shows f...
رواية داخل رواية داخل رواية!مبدأياً الحبكة الرئيسية تدور حول روبارتو، رجل إيطالي غرقت سفينته ليجد نفسه هائماً في البحر على لوح خشبي يقوده إلى السفينة دافني، حيث يبدأ بالكتابة وإستعادة ذكريات حياته وإكتشاف مستقبله على تلك السفينة. السفينة تقع أمام الجزيرة التي تمر من خلالها الهاجرة التي تقسم العال...
En quittant Roumanie il y a plus de huit ans, je laissais là-bas non seulement une partie de ma famille et des amis, mais aussi d’une grande bibliothèque dont j’ai apporté au Canada peu de livres (surtout des écrivains roumains) en me disant que j’allais la refaire ici. Ce que j’ai fait, en rache...
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of classification by genus and species derives from the Neo-P...
Baudolino waits to leave for the kingdom of Prester John Baudolino had been talking too long, and Niketas was hungry. Theophilactus made him sit down to supper, offering him caviar of various fish, followed by a soup with onions and olive oil, served on a plate full of bread crumbs, then a sauce ...
No one seemed eager to do very much, including Simei. On the other hand, twelve issues in a year isn’t the same as one a day. I read the first drafts of the articles, tried to give them a uniformity of style and to discourage overly elaborate expressions. Simei approved: “We’re doing journalism h...