![]() However, things become far too real when the aptly-named reporter Braggadocio starts unearthing (or perhaps manufacturing) signs that point to a decades-long conspiracy – one that involves the highest echelons of the Italian government, the Vatican and even Benito Mussolini himself. The paper will only print ghost issues, packed with carefully curated flights of fancy and assorted outlandish theories, so that the publisher might illustrate to the powers that be the blackmail capabilities of such a publication. ![]() Our narrator is an Italian journalist by the name of Colonna, a self-described loser who has been recruited to help launch a newspaper that is never to actually be published.Ĭalled “Domani” (“Tomorrow”), this newspaper is intended as a tool for a mysterious communications magnate to finagle his way into the inner circles of power. This is one of the baseline questions in Umberto Eco’s latest novel, “Numero Zero”, a slim meditation on the nature of the media by way of the Italian author’s usual web of shadowy conspiracies and secret histories. Is a newspaper that never publishes still a newspaper? ![]()
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