In the Postscript to the Name of the Rose (1985), for my Eco predicts the emergence of Dan Brawn :
The difference, if anything, is between the text to produce a new reader and trying to anticipate the reader's wishes can be found on the street. In the second case, we have the book, built to a form suitable for mass production: the author makes a kind of market analysis, and conforms to expectations. With the distance you can see who is working with formulas: just look different novels he has written, to discover that, except for changes of names, places and faces, they all tells the same story. That the public wanted.
time ago se despachó en una entrevista :
-I am wondering if you read Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code,” which some critics see as the pop version of your “Name of the Rose.”
-I was obliged to read it because everybody was asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in my novel, “Foucault’s Pendulum,” which is about people who start believing in occult stuff.
y en otra :
INTERVIEWER: Have you read The Da Vinci Code ?
ECO: Yes, I am guilty of that too.
INTERVIEWER: That novel seems like a bizarre little offshoot of Foucault’s Pendulum .
ECO: The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum ! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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