A novel about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and anti-Semitism as its main theme is not easy to make entertaining.
Or you will have to sacrifice the analysis of a collective phobia for the sake of the sharpness of the plot, or translate the narrative into long authorial reflections. But Umberto Eco managed to combine the incompatible. He brilliantly carried out the planned historical psychoanalysis, shading it with a split personality of the hero and spectacular scenes in the clinic of the famous Dr. Charcot. But at the same time, he furnished the story of the infamous “Protocols” enchantingly – with the adventures of their creator, the Italian Simonino Simonini, who travels the world, communicates with the Russian tsarist secret police and Garibaldi’s fighters, and at his leisure shares with the reader a recipe for veal ribs “Foyo”. This is what it means to be able to combine the useful with the pleasant.
The Body, 560 c.