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The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner released in 2005.

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The book tells of the antisemitic conspiracy behind the falsified work Protocols of the Elders of Zion, written by the Russian-French writer Mathieu Golovinski in 1905. Eisner was inspired to write it when a few years before his death in 2005 he learned Radio Islam was broadcasting the Protocols.[1]

The book was released by W. W. Norton in 2005 with an introduction by Umberto Eco[1] entitled "The Power of Falsehood".[2]

In Eye Magazine, Steve Heller praised Eisner for taking on the subject, but criticized the work's "ham-fisted, curiously naïve methodology", exaggerated faces and gestures, and the grey wash artwork.[1] Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian found the wash "a dramatic instrument".[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Heller 2005.
  2. [2]
    Lezard 2006.

Works cited

  • Heller, Steve (Autumn 2005). "Eisner puts straight an anti-semitic slander". Eye Magazine. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  • Lezard, Nicholas (July 22, 2006). "The enduring power of lies". The Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2015.

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