Umberto Eco
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Letters to the editor: March 4 to 10 2016
Readers write in about FW de Klerk, Evita and racism, and Umberto Eco.
Dan Brown not Umberto Eco’s sole echo
Eco, who has died at the age of 84, bestrode the disparate worlds of popular fiction and critical thinking with panache.
Historical pastiche cheapens horror of anti-Semitism
Eco’s new book tells the story of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, <em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>.
The Infinity of Lists
The esteemed Umberto Eco brings us a weighty volume in <em>The Infinity of Lists</em>. The problem however is, that the book is arm-gnawingly boring.
A story of hope from one who has survived sexual abuse
A man in a clerical habit abused me in the church hall of the Johannesburg parish of the Immaculate Conception in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank. It happened after a children’s…
The end of the road
Darryl Accone reviews Michael Dibdin’s End Games, the last instalment of the Zen novels.
Smell me a story
Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel <i>Perfume</i>