Are the elusive stories Braggadocio unfurls real or are they only his "reconstruction of the facts"? The question takes on added resonance in the landscape of the newspaper office, where nothing is as it appears. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Even its protagonists don't fully believe the narrative they are spinning - until, that is, danger asserts itself. Numero Zero (Hardcover) Published November 3rd 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. "Numero Zero" sits somewhere in the middle, blending fiction and real-life events. In the former, such a conspiracy is invented, although it still has profound ramifications in the latter, perhaps, not so much. In those books too he illuminates conspiracies with deep roots, stretching across history: a series of shadow narratives that explain, or undermine our explanation, of the world. At just under 200 pages, Numero Zero is the shortest of Eco’s novels by a considerable margin. He remains best known (in America, anyway) for his 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose," but it is two later novels, "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Prague Cemetery," that "Numero Zero" most invokes. Umberto Eco’s final novel is a fast-paced historical thriller centred on a newspaper that will never be published, and a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Eco has long played with the question of meaning - in his criticism and essays, his embrace of semiotics and intertextuality, and his fiction as well.
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