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Intelligence Squared

Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

Arts, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

RIP Umberto Eco, bestselling Italian author and semiotician perhaps best-known for his novel 'The Name of the Rose', who sadly died aged 84 earlier this week. This week's podcast revisits our event from November 2011, when we were lucky enough to host Eco as he discussed the persistence of conspiracies, the infinity of lists, the future of books, and writing fiction. Eco was in conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you for downloading this Intelligence Squared podcast.

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visit Intelligentsquared.com and sign up to the newsletter. Thank you very much, Hannah Kay. It's a pleasure.

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Thank you very much, Hannah Kay.

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It's a pleasure. Thank you very much, Hannah Kay.

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It's a pleasure to be here in London with Umberto Echo.

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And this new book, The Prague Cemetery, I actually have the new English edition and I have the American edition.

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More scary.

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More scary. more scary.

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Will that sell more books?

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We don't yet know.

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Anyway, I'm going to begin by reading something from the book and have you react to this reading.

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