Very complex and convoluted, but I decided to just go with the flow and keep with it, even though I wasn't sure who was who and what they were doing. Eco acknowledges this in the endpiece and humbly says he often has the same problem. Nevertheless, it was enjoyable, he writes so well and the story of an anti-semite conspiracy theorist inserting himself into and shaping major events and scandals in the 19th century was very well done, and chilling given the propensity of people even today to believe such dangerous and pernicious attacks and slurs.
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