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.

Da Vinci Code - Book Review

The extraordinary success that has accompanied the Da Vinci Code in Europe and elsewhere, suggests report it as emblematic of a type of literature that crosses borders and requires, for better or worse, the top sales worldwide.

The Code is also an example of how to bind a book and tell your pages to the religious and artistic history of Europe. References to the works of a master like Leonardo da Vinci, in fact, allow the player to sweep across Europe, from Italy to France, Britain, to Poland.

The book is then built on a vision of the least original of the origins of Christianity and the Roman Church, both cornerstones of European culture.

The story is set in France in the Louvre, known for its prestige throughout the world. Start with the murder of Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere, the head of a secret keeper of a terrible secret.

The Grail is in fact the only device able to provide the organization with unlimited power over the Roman Church. A coded message left on his deathbed by Sauniere deceive the French police he considers the main suspect, Robert Langdon, an American historian known for his studies of the Holy Grail developed on a book by controversial theories.

The coded message of Sauniere has however more than one recipient, a sequence of numbers contained in it, it forces the investigators to contact the Department of cryptology.

The expert is contacted Sophie Neveu, granddaughter of Sauniere, who has bequeathed a second secret. The truth about the Grail can hold immense power, it is much more than twenty million dollars offered by the Vatican to ensure that Opus Dei is discovered and revealed.

This is a thriller from the complex plot that sees first Opus Dei anxiously search for the Grail and the other trying to Langdon and Sophie to trace the truth was lost after the murder of Sauniere.

The intent of the Grand Master, the mysterious character who works in Finace Opus Dei is to reveal the secret about life and descent of Jesus to the world, but at the end Langdon manages to avert the danger.

The conclusion of the book will reveal to us later as Langdon able to have access to information in the box and discover what really is the Holy Grail: the place beneath which are buried the remains of Mary Magdalene, the supposed wife of Jesus and the progenitor of a race real.

What really makes the book compelling is no doubt that aura of mystery surrounding the Grail, because the plot as the classic thriller is able to excite the reader is left waiting with bated breath to discover the disturbing truth.