The Davinci Code - Book Review

Jacques Sauniere, curator of the famous Louvre is brutally hit during one night in the same museum in Paris. In a last desperate act, the man of seventy years, clings to a painting by Caravaggio and triggers the alarm. The heavy iron gate is immediately down, blocking the entrance to his pursuer.

The last minutes of life, Saunière uses them to take off his clothes, lie on the floor and be disposed as the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man. When you reach the first responders are faced with a chilling scene: near naked body lifeless some numbers and a name: Robert Langdon.

So begins the esoteric thriller aspects that has caused many controversies and has become a publishing phenomenon published in forty-four languages and with over forty million copies sold. The idea of history is the key to the secret of the Grail, the Church strove to hide through the "biggest cover-up work history, should be sought nell'allusivo pictorial language.

Between reality and fantasy Dan Brown manages to steal and to involve building a pressing and compelling story through the use of the symbols of religion and art. Many scholars have criticized this book because of the undoubtedly inaccurate historical reconstructions, documentary and artistic. And many critics have argued that the main ideas of the book are drawn from previous works and less famous.

One of these is the essay The Holy Grail by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who have even mentioned Dan Brown to court for plagiarism. The lawsuit ended in favor of Brown, stating that The Da Vinci Code while taking some elements of the work of two historians, was not copied. A curiosity: perhaps one of the characters in the novel, the historian Leigh Teabing, was chosen using the name of Richard Leigh Michael Baigent el'anagramma's surname.

I think all the criticism, even harsh ones, are motivated by a desire to challenge the content, the enormous spread that the book has had and the importance of the Church and Christianity.

And I also believe that while those are absolutely understandable coming from the Catholic world due to the resurgence of the debate about the reliability of the Gospels, but are not those of other scholars or assumed.

The Da Vinci Code is just a story, not a history book, is a novel where fiction and reality are intertwined more or less depending on the imagination, narrative ability, the desire to amaze and be talked about author not an essay with the presumption to unearth historical truths and to document events that happened two thousand years ago. It has unleashed an unprecedented BUSTER.

 It 's really should say "Much ado about nothing." It 's a good book, moving and intriguing at the right point, you can spend some pleasant hours, and perhaps may lead to some more or less profound reflection. What do you want? Many have read it, those who did not allow himself to be influenced too much by negative comments or otherwise enthusiastic.

Everyone makes a personal opinion. A book is just that: a stimulus to thought and reflection, sometimes fun, escape and entertainment. Read this and take it for what it is: a story.