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A review by johncbeynon
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
3.0
Eco's The Prague Cemetery features an anti-protagonist that you love to hate and hate to love. He's all things loathsome, and yet I couldn't help get caught up in his various evil machinations and ruthless ability to destroy others. I nearly lost interest when the novel tells a convoluted story of espionage, double-dealing, and betrayal in Italy, but once we find Simonini in Paris, spinning his anti-Semitic, anti-masonic, and anti-Jesuit plots that revolve around dark doings at a Prague Cemetery, then I couldn't put the novel down. The clever illustrations are wonderful additions.
This interview with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle inspired me to read the book.
This interview with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle inspired me to read the book.