![]() And then, in the world, there are more losers than winners, and so (laughter) my readers can identify themselves with the characters. Also, my "Foucault's Pendulum" - main characters were, in a way, losers.ĮCO: They are more interesting than the winners.ĮCO: They give a more to psychology. Obviously, you must be a loser in order to work for a newspaper like that (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.ĭoes being a loser make him vulnerable to saying yes to the schemes of the publisher?ĮCO: All the characters of my novel are losers (laughter). 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. SCOTT SIMON, BYLINE: 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. ![]() ![]() We'll visit now our last conversation with him. His final work "Numero Zero" was published last October. The internationally renowned Italian author Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84. ![]()
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