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>The novel has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling books ever published. It has received many international awards and accolades, such as the Strega Prize in 1981 and Prix Medicis Étrangère in 1982, and was ranked 14th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list.

>> No.12075065

>>12075032
Not a fan of Eco at all, in fact I hate the cunt.
But the book is well-written, it's smart and clever, it shows the power of reason over the Church, small wonder, then it's popular.
Plus the film is not half bad either.

>> No.12075073

>>12075032
It’s a murder mystery with gay sex, straight sex, spooky Antichrist stuff and a Sherlock Holmes pastiche.

>> No.12075081

Because it's good.

>> No.12075083

>>12075065
>hate the cunt.

lol why do you hate him?

>> No.12075153

>>12075032
>Strega Prize
Ridiculously overrated. I've read that solitude of prime numbers book and it's just an interesting story poorly written.
Not really proof, but Calvino refused the Strega and Pavese committed suicide the year he won it.

>> No.12075185

>>12075083
He fucked my so called "mother".

>> No.12075186

>>12075083
because he's a self-righteous, pompous little Italian prick, that's why.

>> No.12075189

>>12075032
>His first novel was so successful he wrote his second one trying NOT to be a bestseller.
>Becomes a bestseller.

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>>12075186
he earned his arrogance by btfo pseuds left and right

>> No.12075211

>>12075083
because normies know about him

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>>12075197
You can tell when an author is butthurt for not winning the Nobel prize

>> No.12075231

>>12075197
>the lower classes need to be silenced so that only the elites have a voice

wait, wasn't this guy a communist at one point? did he convert into liberal elitism later in life or something?

>> No.12075250

>>12075197
Love it when lefties get a good dose of the democratic hordes they force upon everyone else. Shame he didn't go out being diversified in act of immigrant doctor's street surgery.

>> No.12075259

A lot of the world is both Christian and interested in murder mysteries.

>> No.12075260

>Jorge did it all because of his hatred of Aristotle

Why isn't this guy and his hatred of the Greeks memed more?

>> No.12075261

>>12075250
one lives in hope

>> No.12075262

>>12075219
kek. this.

>> No.12075300

>>12075250
ah yes, those famous leftist corporate entities "facebook", "google" and "twitter". will their relentless pursuit of shareholder value stop at nothing less than full communism?

>> No.12075315

>>12075231
>>12075250
the world is not the USA, stop thinking your retarded view of your own country can be applied to any other country

>> No.12075348

>>12075260
Because it's even funnier to meme Borges' hatred of "non serious" literature

>> No.12075917

>>12075231
He was educated during Italy's fascist period and it never really left him. His Ur-Fascism essay is more a confession than a serious work of political analysis.

>> No.12075945

>>12075917
I dislike the way he shit-talked our Evola in that essay, and the other one in which he ripped the piss out of Guenon too.

>> No.12076031

>>12075250
The liberal left never advocated for full-blown direct democracy except at the fringes. I'm no lefty but retarded strawmen like this serve no purpose

>> No.12076623

The average reader was different in the early 80's.

>> No.12076710

strega prize is awarded on the basis of agreements and exchanges of favors among publishers