On Ugliness

As per the news published in Iran's Books New Agency, Umberto Eco gathered ideas and concepts of ugliness from different books written at different point of time in the past.  Umberto Eco published the book titled  ‘On Ugliness’ in 2007 to which he referred in an interview "If a novelist does not challenge his scientific character, his writing style remains consistent and unchanged." 

The book is unique in the sense that it deals with various several "several aspects of ugliness in the classical world, the concepts of fascination, death, martyrdom, resurrection, hell, demons, monsters and sinister signs, the ugly, ridiculous, shameful, ugliness of women from antiquity to baroque and the presence of evil in the modern world." (IBNA)

Umberto Eco Reappears in Detective Fiction "The 7th Function of Language"

Once again detective fiction writers could not avoid referring to the legendry author – Umberto Eco - and his provocative artistic skills of creating mysteries. This time Laurent Binet has experimented to write a postmodernist and post structuralist detective fiction based on the life famous critic – Roland Barthes. His new novel The 7th Function of Language stuns the reader when they find that Roland Barthes did not die in an accident rather it was a planned murder for a secret document possessed by him. This secret document has details about the potency of language to persuade people. This document could enable its possessor to be the master of the world.  

The story has characters known for their academic and intellectual works. Among them, Umberto Eco, Roman Jakobson and Julia Kristeva are the ones who Laurent Binet included to create such a wonderful postmodernist detective fiction. The Protagonist meets Umberto Eco in the city of Bolgna. 

New Spark to the Mystery of Templers and Holy Grail

As per a new report published on the website of History Channel, the mystery of Templers has sparked discussion with an English cave came into limelight. The cave is engraved with some mysterious images that remind people of eight hundred years old Templers and Holy Grail. 

The mystery is so intrigue that it has been dragging writers, historians and scholars to unearth the truth. Writers, historians and explorers are so much of obsessed with the mystery that in the first decade of twenty first century Dan Brown gave a new twist to it by fictionalize in his famous book – The Da Vinci Code. And who can forget the legendry Italian Writer Umbero Eco for his masterpiece – Foucault’s Pendulum that stunned the reader with its thrilling unraveling of truth in fiction -

“Generation after generation, from Walter Scott’s nineteenth-century romance ‘Ivanhoe’ to Umberto Eco’s 1988 novel ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ to the video game franchise ‘Assassin’s Creed’, the Templars are portrayed as a strange, often shadowy and sometimes downright evil organization, deathless and self-interested, guarding secrets and treasure, and out to control the world.”[1]

 Foucault’s Pendulum drags readers interested in searching the truth of Holy Grail and Templers in fiction. Even more encouraging is the way academia responded to the popular historical fiction.

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[1] http://www.history.com/news/medieval-carvings-spark-new-templar-theories