Most Comfortable Ball Gag

Gregg dies hard

There is an ideal witness to each other with The Conspiracy of Will Eisner and The Cemetery of Prague Umberto Eco. The second one could see how the prequel to the first, being The Protocols of the Elders of Zion the point of union between the two works. As soon as I read conluso installment in the historical novel of the writer in Piedmont, are course to look on the shelves of my library the American comic book author and I found out (the fact that I had completely forgotten) that the introduction to the Italian edition of 2005, Einaudi was written just by the famous Italian philosopher semilog . Eco
's interest in the theme is clear: nell'introduzone he mentions some of the comic characters with real historical EIST which then the protagonist of the novel, the spy and anti-Semitic forger Simone Simonini, interact. They are authors of fictional texts from which, in Eco's fiction, Simonini extract fragments and will be guided to produce a document that then sell to one who, historically, it was found to be the author of the Protocol, the forger and Russian spy Mathieu Golovinskj . The introduction is unintentionally mentioned the title of the future novel, this cemetery in Prague, in the work of a German writer, is defined as the meeting place between the chief rabbis of various communities of the European Jewish Diaspora, during which was prepared to conquer the evil plan of world power.

In the fiction of the book of Eco, the German romaziere steals the idea Simonini, who had in turn taken from a novel by Eugene Sue , The wandering jew that Prague, however, saw the cemetery as the scene of a Jesuit conspiracy. The novel Eco can be seen then as the story of the construction of a fake, one of the most tragic and full of dire consequences that human history has known, drawn from different sources and outside the Jewish world, born anti-Semitic hatred and directed to sustain it even more.
Eco writes, in the guise of the narrator, the fne of his novel, about the protagonist "... Simone Simonini, although the effect of a collage, for which they were allocated in reality things done by different people, is somehow existed. Indeed, to be honest, he is still with us. "
Will Eisner focuses initially on Golovinskj and his work in the Tsarist secret police to discredit the Jews, and then on the success that the Protocols knew in the twentieth century, being published throughout the world and inspiring small and large groups of anti-Semites, including Hitler's Nazism. At the ending of the book we see the same that Eisner, as he is making his book between 1993 and 2002, remains stunned by the publication of the Protocols continue to have around the world, despite repeatedly proved false, and the irrational psychological mechanism that drives people to believe it.

Will Eisner performs research for his comic

The preface, written by Will Eisner that opens and closes with these two paragraphs that express very clearly the total involvement that caught the author in fulfillment of his work.

"With The Conspiracy for the first time I did not use the comic to tell a story. This time I tried to use this powerful medium to address an issue that has fundamental importance in my life ...."

"... Throughout my career I have always told stories using the art of comics. Now that this art is universally accepted even in the popular literature, it presents an opportunity to counter this propaganda a linguggio more accessible. La mia speranza è che questo lavoro possa contribuire a distruggere questo inganno terrificante".

A poca distanza di tempo dal Giorno della Memoria , ricordare quest'opera a fumetti mi sembra ancor più necessario, perché, come conclude Eco la sua introduzione a Il Complotto, "...malgrado questo coraggioso e non comic ma tragic book di Will Eisner, la storia non sia ancora finita. Però vale la pena continuare a raccontarla, per opporsi alla Grande Menzogna e all'odio che essa continua a incoraggiare."