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  2. The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.

  3. Jan 1, 2001 · For a truly penetrating look at religion and atheism, Umberto Eco, he da man. The Name of the Rose is a profoundly nihilistic book. It is ostensibly a book about a murder mystery: A man, a monk rather, Brother William, arrives with his assistant, Adso, at an abbey high in the Italian Alps.

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  4. The Name of the Rose, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of “ truth ” from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.

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  5. Apr 22, 2014 · Umberto Eco’s first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Étranger awards. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.

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  6. Sep 28, 1994 · Kindle Edition. by Umberto Eco (Author), William Weaver (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 5,458 ratings. See all formats and editions. “Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end.”—New York Times. “Whether you're into Sherlock Holmes, Montaillou, Borges, the nouvelle critique ...

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  7. About The Name of the Rose. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is ...

  8. Umberto Eco. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 - Fiction - 579 pages. An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder...

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