![]() ![]() His other books include several works of literary criticism and the bestselling novels Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino, and his most recent, The Prague Cemetery. The murder mystery set in a 14th-century monastery was made into a film starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. ![]() Umberto Eco is the 83-year-old Italian novelist best known for the international bestseller The Name of the Rose, published in 1980. ![]() ![]() Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories-and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories-and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones. Numero zero by Umberto Eco 12,468 ratings, 3.16 average rating, 1,528 reviews Open Preview Numero zero Quotes Showing 1-30 of 73 Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. ![]()
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