At the origin of a series of interviews between Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière (Don’t expect to get rid of the booksGrasset, 2009), Jean-Philippe de Tonnac takes us behind the scenes of the meeting between these two great bibliophile minds and “Flaubertians at will”, in turn in Paris and in the country house of the “ professor » at Monte Cerignone, in Marche. A summer at Umberto Eco thus brings them back to life at the table or in the living room, sitting around the swimming pool, exchanging in a sparkling and witty way about their common passion for books and for the stupidity of men. These two yellowed paper madmen agree on one thing: neither will disappear. “The book is like the spoon, the hammer, the wheel or the chisel. Once you have invented them, you cannot do better,” believed Umberto Eco, before pulling out from his sleeve this phrase to meditate from the poet Heinrich Heine: “Where we burn books, we end up burning men. »
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