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Wu Ming, the army of sleepwalkers, echoes Eco's writing in this pleasantly crafted book.

The backdrop of the French Revolution, from the king's beheading to the beginning of the counter-revolution but a continuum of characters who appear/disappear.

Beautiful quotes from Goldoni and Moliere, the pattern of Goldoni's Campiello seems to be the narrative thread of the book.

The campiello (the Venetian square) here becomes Paris, with its venues, the runs of the revolutionaries and a doctor who practices that form of magnetism/hypnosis.

The struggle between the doctor and another character, the goals the two set themselves, weave further narrative relationships within the pages.

Wu Ming is already a form of collective writing in itself, this is particularly evident in the quotes. The broad scope of the book allows for multiple reflections, ranging from the revolutionary/socialist concept of property to that of popular beliefs and their interactions with science.

Pleasant characters, settings and "costumes", many neologisms used without descending into profanity or vulgarity

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