Summary
Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery
In an impressive combination of a picaresque novel and a richly illustrated feuilleton, Eco returns to the history of Europe with a novel of intrigue and conspiracy in which almost all the characters (except the main one) are real people. We follow the life of an aging captain, Simon Simonini, who wakes up in his Paris apartment and tries to remember who he is. Using the methods of Dr. Freud (whom he met a couple of times), he remembers his past. He is a top forger and murderer, an unparalleled misanthrope and a lover of good food, an associate of various secret services and the originator of many bloody events at the turn of the 19/20. century and the author of the text that was later formed into the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
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