5/8/2023 0 Comments Numero zero by umberto ecoObviously, you must be a loser in order to work for a newspaper like that (laughter). SIMON: Colonna, your journalist, says I dreamed what all losers dream - about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.ĭoes being a loser make him vulnerable to saying yes to the schemes of the publisher?ĮCO: All the characters of my novel are losers (laughter). The book is "Numero Zero," and Umberto Eco, one of the best-selling authors in the world, joins us from Milan. The publisher intends only to use the paper as a vehicle to concoct nonsense, fuel fantasies and contrive conspiracy theories that could be used to blackmail people of Italy's inner sanctum of power - government, military, finance, the papacy. SCOTT SIMON, BYLINE: It's about a Roma journalist named Colonna who's recruited to run a newspaper in the Italy of 1992, a newspaper called Domani, or Tomorrow, because the day it comes out will never be. We'll visit now our last conversation with him. His final work "Numero Zero" was published last October. The internationally renowned Italian author Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84.
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