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Jan 1, 2001 · 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. A murder has been committed, and Brother William will apply reason and logic—a Sherlock avant la lettre—to deduce the murderer.
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Italian writer Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His first novel, 1980’s “The Name of the Rose,” was a bestseller. This review of “The Name of the Rose” was originally published in The ...
Aug 30, 2009 · The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 552 pp., $15.95. [The Monitor occasionally reprints material from its archives. This review originally ran on Dec. 2, 1983.] How might ...
- Merle Rubin
Eco makes interesting demands on his reader. There’s a lot of philosophy, theories of knowledge. I find it very, very heartening that so many people have taken the time to read this complicated book. And I think the reason it’s been so popular is that he did this really genius thing of putting together a very complex field—semiotics or ...
Jan 24, 2022 · The present book is a reconstruction from the notebooks as the original fourteenth-century manuscript is lost to a lover’s quarrel. Umberto’s chosen mode of narration becomes all the more credible since the constructed book itself hints at a lost manuscript within. The book assumes the reader’s knowledge of politics and events of the time ...
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.
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Jan 7, 2020 · That’s not necessarily a good thing, William tells Adso, for too much reading can lead a person to think strange thoughts. Umberto Eco, the bibliophile’s bibliophile, takes the occasion of his novel The Name of the Rose to imagine a place of his fondest dreams, a library hidden away in secret passages, full of odd and occult knowledge.
