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	Umberto Eco on Dan Brown

rochester92

12-7-2007 6:43 AM

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"So Dan Brown is one of my creatures." -Umberto Eco

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Brown</PERSON>’s “Da Vinci Code,” which some critics see as the pop version 
of your “Name of the Rose.”</B> I was obliged to read it because everybody was 
asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in 
my novel, “Foucault’s Pendulum,” which is about people who start believing in 
occult stuff. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/magazine/25wwln-Q4-t.html"><P><B>But you yourself seem interested in the kabbalah, alchemy and other occult 
practices explored in the novel.</B> No, in “Foucault’s Pendulum” I wrote the 
grotesque representation of these kind of people. So Dan Brown is one of my 
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