And he's peddling a story - or maybe more a suspicion - that was Benito Mussolini really killed by Italian partisans then hung upside down along his mistress in the Piazzale Loreto?ĮCO: OK, listen, every fact in my novel is true except this story of Mussolini because Braggadocio is evidently a paranoid devotee of conspiracies, and so I have invented these conceived conspiracies. SIMON: At the heart of the story is a tipster, maybe pointedly named Braggadocio.
And then in the world, there are more losers than winners, and so my readers can identify themselves with the characters. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.ĮCO: They have a more complicated psychology. Obviously, you must be a loser in order to work for a newspaper like that. Does being a loser make him vulnerable to saying yes to the schemes of the publisher?ĮCO: No, well, all the characters of my novel are losers (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. 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. 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.
It ranges from lullabies to his son and recollections of his own rambunctious youth. Rod Stewart joins us in a few minutes with his latest CD.
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