![]() ![]() It was a pure pleasure to hear one more refrain from that great orchestra of a mind. I’m sure it will be racked as “minor” Eco, but even minor Eco is worthy of any thinking human’s attention. There are joyful bursts of old Eco in here - a group of delirious pages about fake orders in Malta, big passages of mad wordgames - and then, joyfully, a big weird conspiracy plot, Eco’s love of genre in full effect. 'The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. Reading from our own vantage, we know it’s doomed, of course, and Eco has a lot of fun with layers of short-sightedness and some score-settling knifework upon the Italian newspaper industry as well as the obvious media mogul targets. To order Numero Zero for 12.99 (RRP 16.99) go to or call 03. Almost in the manner of Bigend’s “Node” in Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy, an unseen actor is creating a sequence of dummy runs of a newspaper in order to practise causing effects upon the power structures of the day. His final work 'Numero Zero' was published. The internationally renowned Italian author Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84. ![]() ![]() It’s a short and sweet little book, like a tiny aftershock from FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM, set in the early 1990s and concerning a newspaper that doesn’t exist. We recall last year's conversation between the author and Scott Simon. ![]() If you know me at all, you know I have unholy love for Eco’s work, fiction and non-fiction. Umberto Ecos Numero Zero nais, mafia, industrialists, and who knows who else, in one way or another, are all tangled together, all connected, in covering up ille-gal activities. NUMERO ZERO was the final Umberto Eco novel. ![]()
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