The first novel I enjoyed from Eco was The Name of the Rose; second was The Foucault's Pendulum and I was so fascinated that I didn't wanted to disturb my infatuation fearing his modern novels will destroyed that vision. Now I have to read The Cemetery of Prague.
Here I was imagining he was sitting somewhere in his yard, dictating to his assistant some other great work. Then I find he's left us. He was stranger, yes, but I followed his writing for so many years... it stings. He was a lovely and facinating person. RIP.
MelancoliaI Not only the smartest but he was also historically prepared so he did not made mistakes in mixing characters living in different centuries (any reference I made to a famous writer mad for Leonardo Da Vinci is not incidental)
This interviewer represents a too common flaw in TV journalism. He has a most interesting guest but is just slavering to make his own opinions known. Why doesn't he interview a mirror?
It's a conversation not an interview, they use questions as a starting point, then it evolves in many directions. Of course there's personal content, it is always like that. Everyone has an opinion, nothing wrong with it, Eco then gives his point of view, in an exchange. Not to have a personal opinion is very dangerous, that's one of the most important things they are telling in this video!
As with the Italians, we Greeks have always been one another’s abiding enemies; but unlike the Italians, we most assuredly also have a perennial external Enemy - but I won’t say who it is: it’s a secret...
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead". -- Benjamin Franklin. Deeply hating on Holdengräber, not just for citing Jefferson in a misquote but because that typifies his level of input to this "interview". Eco acquits himself by not engaging the stupidity and talking on his own level.
This deeply irritated me too. The quote had the word secret in it, but other than that had nothing to do with what Eco was saying. Poor interviewer, brilliant interviewee.
The face, the pose, the gesture, the endless first question, all indicate how fascinated the interviewer is with his own person, which is terribly boring. On the other hand, Umberto Eco is captivating in everything he says.
I found myself mirroring the interviewer's face, pose and gesture, because he and I are riveted by what Eco is saying, tears coming to my eyes for the truth he speaks.
He is fascinated by Casablanca. In this interview he says Reagan was supposed to star in it. On Desert Island Discs he took music from the film to the island.
thanks for posting this video. Well, at least in my language, the Etymology of 'secret' guessed by the host was close to correct, except it is the other way around (it's 'secrete' that comes from 'secret': se·crete [si-kreet] verb (used with object), se·cret·ed, se·cret·ing. to discharge, generate, or release by the process of secretion The correspondant, in my language, comes from the Latin 'Secretus', and means 'to sever', 'to cast out', 'to expel'; metaphorically, to put in secret, to exile
needs less holdengräber and more eco. with all due respect, and interesting etymologies aside, i came for eco, not holdengräber. btw, secret and secretion both derive at varying distances from L. secernere (to move apart), iirc. edit: i was too harsh on holdengräber.
A real comedian has studied more literature than any other, now they hire actors just because they can perform well, but it used to be different. That's because literature describes all human feelings emotions expressions which they should portray on the screen. They also share French knowledge which is used to clarify things they cannot say with an English word.
for an Italian it is very complicated to translate their thoughts from Italian to English, because the lexical form and the grammar are different and simpler, for what it's worth Eco had a rather fluent English, for the accent there is nothing to do
4 года назад
@@mazzonepunitore Dear Alessio, he should have spoken Italian und get simultaneous translation. I read his books; which are so learned, and here he did not have the vocabulary to express his thoughts fully.
