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78Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery, Part 2
We have followed the forger to his dinner with Freud and are now ready to enter his memories, fragile and unreliable as they are. This section, in which the forger details his relationship with his grandfather and father in Italy, forces us to deal...
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72Umberto Eco The Prague Cemetery
I have been looking forward to Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery for months, and yesterday it finally arrived in my hands, a hard-bound tome of joy. I enjoy Eco for many reasons. He is fabulously erudite and interested in the world. He is a...
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79Simonini's Masterpiece--The Prague Cemetery
In the chapters I will be writing about today, the artist realizes his vision, creating the core of what will in Russian hands become the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Chapter 12: A Night in Prague In prison, Joly asked Simonini to go to a...
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81Jan Hus
Jan Hus was a priest, preacher; and professor at Prague University in Bohemia when one of the popes excommunicated him in 1411, which started a riot among his supporters. The entire city of Prague was then excommunicated. This meant that its...
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83The Best Tourist Attractions of the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, located right in the middle of Europe is an amazing tourism destination. Prague is attracting millions of visitors every year. Story-rich landscapes full of quaint old towns, castles and chateaux are attracting a growing number of tourists as well.
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72Guess who's coming to dinner? The Commendatore scene. Mozart's Don Giovanni. Don’t invite a dead man to a meal.
The opera Don Giovanni by Mozart is an horrific cautionary tale. Read about the evil Don, and his awful end here. Not for the squeamish.
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70Most Popular walls in the world
Wall may be politically, and may be a security and possibly a racist, or even an ordinary wall for construction work, let us here take a light on some of the walls of the controversial .. And sometimes humor.
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79Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery, Part Three
I come into the section of Simonini's Italian adventures less than well prepared, so I may relieve you of a little legwork by providing my own research notes here. I have an interest in European history, and if this novel had been set in Germany or...
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82Eastern Europe – a Road Trip
This is an account of a trip from Prague, Czech Republic to … Prague! I am sharing some experiences and recommendations on how to make it easier for potential travelers and visitors. The full itinerary includes Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia,...
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74Fiction and History--The Prague Cemetery, Part 7
Simonini is tired of his moralist companion in narration and memory. The Abbe, he says, should be more like Father Bergameschi, recognizing the realities of life. He is too fond of judging, of accusing. Meanwhile, in the story they have been...
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