Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

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This conversation took place at Kensington Town Hall on 19th November 2011.
Speakers:
UMBERTO ECO: Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist
PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER: Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library where he has interviewed and hosted President Clinton, Norman Mailer, Spike Lee and Jay-Z
Event info:
CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA & THE NOVEL
A Conversation with Umberto Eco.
* Writing fiction about the real
* Exploring the persistence of conspiracies
* Adapting "The Name of the Rose" for the internet generation
* Grasping the infinity of lists
* Exploring the future of books
* Losing yourself in a 50,000-volume library
These are some of the topics Umberto Eco will be discussing with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library.
Their wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery. The book is an historical pseudo-reconstruction set in a 19th-century Europe teeming with secret service forgeries, Jesuit plots, murders and conspiracies, and covering everything from the unification of Italy, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It has been criticised by both the Vatican-backed newspaper the Osservatore Romano and the Chief Rabbi of Rome.

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@ralam420 7 жыл бұрын

"The Universal Conspiracy is a means by which we avoid our responsibilities". Brilliant. RIP Eco Sahib.

@SuperNinag 3 жыл бұрын

T être e terre têt TT de e et Hcxzgc CFF est est trop bien t tu

@SuperNinag 3 жыл бұрын

Réalité yéti thé vidéo yes sde tyy

@carloscarlos5633 3 жыл бұрын

“For every complex problem, theirs always a simple solution, and it’s wrong”

@silviad1430 2 жыл бұрын

It's Popper sentence that Eco uses giving credit

@LiberApolion 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@yeedateresh4767 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@fatimakhammar5849 Жыл бұрын

Umberto was and is a national proud for us ! Thanks for this document.

@tizianacallari7446 8 жыл бұрын

pure genius observer and analysing the world from an amazing spot of view.

@charlesrommel 11 жыл бұрын

i truly admire this guy!!! he is one of my favourites writters!

@ilpezkato 7 жыл бұрын

Maravilloso!!!...mil gracias por compartirlo...extrañamos al maestro...RIP

@MelancoliaI 9 жыл бұрын

Possibly the best novelist alive, definitely the smartest.

@ComradeAgopian 8 жыл бұрын

MelancoliaI Agreed .

@Alexis-hx3yd 8 жыл бұрын

I agree whole heartedly ,his death is a huge loss on so many levels. See you in another universe Umberto.

@raffaeleirlanda6966 7 жыл бұрын

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)

@thiscommentor2858 4 жыл бұрын

He could speak English so well it is a shame we have only a few of his interviews.

@meio4744 7 жыл бұрын

Those chairs look uncomfortable.

@aab1221baa 10 жыл бұрын

i can't imagine what it would be like...to watch a conversation between Eco and Hitchens. it's a pitty there hasn't been any...

@doniolhaha 11 жыл бұрын

[OFr < L secretus, pp. of secernere, to set apart < se-, apart (see SECEDE) + cernere, to sift, distinguish]

@dorianphilotheates3769 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@magouliana32 Жыл бұрын

There are not our enemy, we are their enemy.

@dorianphilotheates3769 Жыл бұрын

HellenicMind - Ακριβώς!

@NoOne-tg9tk 9 ай бұрын

Turks

@dorianphilotheates3769 9 ай бұрын

@@NoOne-tg9tk - The secret is out.

@NoOne-tg9tk 9 ай бұрын

@@dorianphilotheates3769 😁

@MrDanbloom 8 жыл бұрын

Rip eco sensei

@grizhalm 7 жыл бұрын

Umberto I bow to you!

@ifigeniaesprella7909 2 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias por el video. Él era maravillo y brillante. Saludos de Bolivia.

@deriter64 10 жыл бұрын

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?

@jaodasaveiroprata2764 2 жыл бұрын

Not an interview tho

@plekkchand 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and he's none too witty either.

@plekkchand 2 жыл бұрын

He is also demonstrating his own innate virtue by pretending not to understand the various evils discussed. Understanding is not assent.

@silviad1430 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@juliocesaryanezsantander5977 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I’m out.

@MAKOBITE 9 жыл бұрын

"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.

@farinati 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@dorianphilotheates3769 2 жыл бұрын

Ε, τι να κάνουμε; - they can’t all be brilliant.

@Descalabro 11 жыл бұрын

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

@elisopantskhava2425 8 жыл бұрын

RIP :(

@user-ji8bq9jp9q 8 жыл бұрын

he will never perish....

@AAwildeone 8 жыл бұрын

Gore Vidal SAID TOO....There ALWAYS must be a NEW ENEMY to keep eyes away from what they really should be focused upon...

@stephensharp3033 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@dina2690 8 жыл бұрын

GREAT MAN

@cravis123 8 жыл бұрын

Mario in his intellectual form. :) Umberto Eco is one of a kind.

@vallenif 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@snarkyboots Жыл бұрын

If it weren't for the interviewer, with all his faults, we would not have this interview. I say, Thank You!!!

@snarkyboots Жыл бұрын

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.

@landgabriel 4 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is John Malkovich right? I'm only on audio.

@bygmesterfinnegan6938 3 жыл бұрын

Eco was a giant!

@sorenaleksander2670 Жыл бұрын

"I am not a conspiracy THEORIST; I am a conspiracy ANALYST..." - Gore Vidal

@oneisarang 8 жыл бұрын

RIP ㅠ

@DysprosiumJudas 8 жыл бұрын

rip. good man, good book

@amenostalgique 4 жыл бұрын

Un genio

@Dorian_sapiens 5 жыл бұрын

These days, iqsquared wouldn't dream of platforming an anti-fascist like this.

@bdschwa 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@pharmakeus62 11 жыл бұрын

Unusually good interviewer

@rsr789 11 жыл бұрын

Indeed. It's because the interviewer actually knows the subject matter, and is clearly eruditie, two traits oft lacking in interviewers.

@dorianphilotheates3769 2 жыл бұрын

1:00:00-1:01:00 - 😂

@UniFLetras 8 жыл бұрын

RIP

@EY_YES 5 ай бұрын

27:23 😂😂😂😂😂facts❤

@dmonarredmonarre3076 4 жыл бұрын

Nassim Taleb brought me here

@spookybuk 5 жыл бұрын

"Nice to see you..." hhahaha Umberto Eco is the Best. I don't know why they picked a comedian to host the interview, though. Makes no sense to me.

@nuran7970 4 жыл бұрын

He was a great intellectual!

@silviad1430 2 жыл бұрын

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.

6 жыл бұрын

A German discussing Ecco's book with Umberto, both speaking GLOBISH = LUDICROUS

@mazzonepunitore 4 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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.