The Interactive Relationship between Literature and Symbols——The Symbolic Derivation System of"Falsification Becoming True"in The Prague Cemetery
The novel The Prague Cemetery by the Italian author Umberto Eco reinterprets the birth process of the Zion Elder Protocol from the personalized perspective of a fictional character"Simonini".The novel revolves around the formation of a symbolic semantic system that combines ambiguity and inter-textual irony,providing readers with broad space to participate in text games.Eco's literary concept was influenced by his semiotic view,and he proposed the concept of"the intention of the text",believing that the text is a generative dynamic object.Through The Prague Cemetery,we can see that"the intention of the text"is reflected in the symbolic structure of the novel and the derivative meaning of the signified lev-el,which is realized by the text,the author and the reader together.It is a kind of meaningful production,and Eco's semiotic poetics,which combines structuralism and post structuralism,has been fully demon-strated.