Braggadocio treats Colonna to a series of long monologues detailing a grand conspiracy that he is investigating. Much of it comes off as didactic - though perhaps the dialogue has a flow or cadence in the original Italian that isn't captured by Richard Dixon's translation.Ĭolonna strikes up a tentative friendship with one of his colleagues, Romano Braggadocio, a muckraking writer with a penchant for wild theorizing. And it lacks much of the rich, colorful writing of his previous novels, instead opting for long stretches of expository dialogue in which characters lecture one another on Italy's complex political history. For one, it is relatively short - less than 200 pages. Though this complex, wheels-within-wheels plotting is classic Eco, "Numero Zero" stands apart from the rest of his oeuvre in a few ways.
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