The Da Vinci Code
(Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a book about a non-existent code to provide clues to uncover suppressed evidence about a marriage that never took place. But why cover up evidence that does not exist? How does one cover up non-existing evidence? And why cover up evidence about a relationship that never existed in the first place? Such is the ?logic? of The Da Vinci Code, and the above non sequiturs already make clear that the conspiracy theory underlying the book has holes so large to accommodate much more than the proverbial Mack truck. So, why has this novel been so wildly successful when its plot inventions add up to some ?hefty speeding tickets? for its author, as Amy Bernstein aptly noted.
The answer lies, at least in part, with the American penchant for conspiracy theories. As Dan Brown himself writes, ?Everybody loves a conspiracy theory.? In a perceptive essay subtitled ?Postmodern Conspiracy Culture and Feminist Myths of Christian Origins,? David Liefeld makes a compelling case that American culture is virtually obsessed with conspiracy theories, no matter how implausible.This, in turn, is part of the new, subjective, postmodern view of history, according to which history is nothing but one person?s version of reality. Truth, for postmodernism, is provisional and constantly evolving, subject to revision as new facts surface that need to be incorporated. In fact, there is no absolute truth, only Truth ?for you? and truth ?for me.?
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