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Jun 30, 2012 · The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco. Random House, Jun 30, 2012 - Fiction - 592 pages. Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths ...
The Name of the Rose was adapted into a 1986 film starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. The movie received mixed reviews, including from Eco, who critiqued its simplification of the book’s political and theological content: “A book like this is a club sandwich, with turkey, salami, tomato, cheese, lettuce.
The Name of the Rose: With John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Damian Hardung, Fabrizio Bentivoglio. In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor.
BAFTA FILM AWARDS® 2X winner. The Name of the Rose. An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. 2,996IMDb 7.72 h 6 min1986. X-RayR. Drama · Suspense · Historical · International.
Sep 28, 1994 · Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic. He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Sere
In my imagination, there are two kinds of monks and two kinds of monasteries. The first kind of monastery is a robust community of men who work hard and pray hard and are bronzed by the sun and have a practical sense of humor. They have joined the life of prayer with the life of the hands. The second monastery is a shuttered series of gloomy passages and dank cells where jealous, mean-spirited ...
Sep 26, 2006 · Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic. He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities ...
- Umberto Eco
