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A Conspiração - A História Secreta dos Protocolos dos Sábios de Sião by Umberto Eco, Will Eisner
rumbledethumps's review against another edition
4.0
Eisner's last completed work is an exposure of the fraud that is the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. His illustrations are outstanding (as expected), and he experiments a bit in form, mixing his illustrations with copies of actual documents. Sometimes, though, the storytelling suffers, as there is quite a bit of expository dialogue.
pjv1013's review against another edition
3.0
Leitura para ajudar no acompanhamento da exploração anual de um romance de Umberto Eco : O Cemitério de Praga.
ladyeremite's review against another edition
3.0
A good comic rendition of a strange and terrible story. I still feel it's missing something somehow though
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
I did not grow up knowing about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I tripped over the Dreyfus Affair. And I certainly knew about the Zionist movement. To the best of my memory the first time I remembered hearing about the Protocols was in a list of evil books on Goodreads. I might have heard about them years ago and it just didn't stick.
This book is a history of a Big Lie. And one that basically came out of Russia. And spread around the world unstoppable. And it doesn't seem to matter that it was based on garbage.
This book includes pages of texts from two sources to compare. I did not find those readable.
I definitely learned more from this. But there could have been more. I wanted a bit more. 3.5 of 5.
This book is a history of a Big Lie. And one that basically came out of Russia. And spread around the world unstoppable. And it doesn't seem to matter that it was based on garbage.
This book includes pages of texts from two sources to compare. I did not find those readable.
I definitely learned more from this. But there could have been more. I wanted a bit more. 3.5 of 5.
indeedithappens's review against another edition
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Deportation, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, and Hate crime
stiricide's review against another edition
4.0
I'd like to give this more stars, as this is Eisner's last work and it's a fascinating, important, convoluted story that I'd never heard before, but I think the story itself gets lost in the heavy presence of primary source documents within the retelling. That shouldn't be a complaint, I know! Actually, in writing that, I just kicked it up to 4 stars. Just because *I* get bored by 17th century philosophic debates doesn't mean that they're *actually* boring, or unimportant. And lord knows I'd never even heard of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion before this book, let alone read them, so yeah, including them (or at least parts of them) is probably pretty important.
ANYWAY.
So what I learned from this book is that the weird conspiracy of Jews taking over the world isn't just weird back channel gossip, it actually has an origin story. Literally, an entire book of propaganda used to create that rumor.
Like TMZ for Czarist Russia.
It's a tough read, because the history itself is so convoluted and bizarre, but I think Eisner does his best with what's available. I'd definitely bring this to my Teens, given the opportunity.
ANYWAY.
So what I learned from this book is that the weird conspiracy of Jews taking over the world isn't just weird back channel gossip, it actually has an origin story. Literally, an entire book of propaganda used to create that rumor.
Like TMZ for Czarist Russia.
It's a tough read, because the history itself is so convoluted and bizarre, but I think Eisner does his best with what's available. I'd definitely bring this to my Teens, given the opportunity.