Prague Cemetery, (Paperback)

from wyclif

I was slow to warm up to this, Eco's latest, but I'm jaded when it comes to his books. Eventually he won me over with a light touch applied to the historical themes and his vivid flights of imaginative, conspiratorial narrative and rococo engravings. Deserves a place alongside, yes, "The Name of ...

from RidgewayGirl

We realized we had gone too far; the idea of a three-headed devil who banqueted with the leader of the Italian government was difficult to swallow. The protagonist of Umberto Eco's novel is not a sympathetic character. His first words to the reader are in the form of an epic rant in which he disp...

from Poquette

Umberto Eco has finally written a book that made me squirm. Not that it is badly written, not that it imparts anything but important truths, but the subject matter is not conducive to elevating one's faith in humanity. It presents a snapshot of a brief period in European history when the confluen...

from pierthinker

Eco is a master at writing historical fiction with a clear and special relevance to the present day and with an accurate representation of the past. The book is presented as the journal of Captain Simonini, originally from Italy, but a long time resident in Paris, written at the end of the 19th c...

from invisiblelizard

I am almost sad to say that I didn't like this book, The Prague Cemetery. I wanted to like it. I like Eco well enough, but alas no, I can't say I liked it at all. But I can see why some people did. If you're a student of mid-to-late 19th century European History (especially French & Italian), the...