Numero Zero

4 hrs. 42 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Umberto Eco

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

A pilot project for a newspaper begins in Milan: it is meant to become yet another tool of political influence for the media magnate sponsoring it. But the editorial team—made up of chronic losers—doesn’t do their work, they indulge in myth-making. One of the staff, driven by a manic obsession, gathers evidence that supports his own version of what happened to Benito Mussolini in 1945—and how the allied intelligence services managed political life in Europe after the war. Around this investigation, a tense drama of love and death, happiness and fear, reality and fiction unfolds.

Umberto Eco is known to the world not only as a living classic of contemporary literature, but also as a serious scholar—a semiologist, medievalist, cultural theorist, and mass communications expert. His new novel "Zero Number" is built on an academic foundation: a thorough study of how the media work.