• Title: The Prague Cemetery
• Author: Umberto Eco
• Genre/Subject: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Start date: 9/14/23
• Finish date: 11/13/23

Review:

This was. This was. Give me a moment. This was, something, there, that sums it up. In other words, this was typical Umberto Eco material: erudite, researched, intellectually challenging and confusing as IKEA instructions in the original Swedish.

So what’s it about? Sort of a historical novel about anti-semitism in 19th century Europe, plus masonic conspiracies, satanism, anti-catholic conspiracies, Italian revolutionaries, French anarchists, Prussians, Russians, The Dreyfus affair, I swear if I had the time and courage to re-read this Marvin the Martian would be featured somewhere.

I don’t know what happened, or who were the protagonists, or how everyone was related. There is actually a chronology at the back (wish I’d known that even if it would have been of limited assistance) that may provide some clarity.