: semiotics links assembled by Martin Ryder STUDY GUIDE : Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: Index to Study Pages : Umberto Eco's take on the religious war b/w microcomputers (Espresso,
Umberto Eco argues that what is important is not superiority but pluralismĪnd toleration (October 13, 2001, The Guardian)
: The roots of conflict : Is western culture better than any other? Page : Umbert Eco (Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione) REVIEW: of Baudolino by Umberto Eco (Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor)Įco: Porta Ludovica - Author Homepage (The Modern Word) Who are killed by their own literary curiosity perhaps it is best thatĪ Top 100 Books of the Millenium Mindful of at least the possibility that he's being serious in thisĪdmission and of the fact that the novel concerns a series of characters Perhaps the point of the novel really is as simple as he says early His failure to even acknowledge his debt to SirĪrthur Conan Doyle renders everything else he has to say more than Or obtuse-hard to tell which-that I now assume that it is merely a hoax. However, the theories he does expound are so absurd That within its pages he might offer some explanation as to his purposes To the Name of the Rose (1983) and picked it up (for $1) on the assumption Well as a garden variety mystery, and that's how almost all of its readers Trying to accomplish other things, but the fact remains, it works quite There are quite probablyĪ number of other levels on which the book can be read and Mr. Intellectual patina to make us feel like we're reading real "literature"Īnd you've got an odds on recipe for a hit. Combine these sure fire formulas with a sufficiently (sort of a medieval Seven Percent Solution) and adds in elements The story then proceeds like the best of the Sherlock Holmes imitations Narrator, in the form of Adso of Melk, an old man now who relates the series Though EcoĬlaims that while he was writing the book he actually referred to WilliamĪs William of Ockham, it seems implausible that he did not realize allĪlong that he was simply transplanting Sherlock Holmes to a medieval monastery.Īfter all, he even gave William an overly innocent sidekick and awestruck To its success, you need look no further than the structure of the storyĪnd the name of the protagonist, William of Baskerville.
But if you want to understand the real key Of the Rose appears, at first glance, to be one of the more unlikelyīestsellers of all time. With large chunks of text in Latin and numerous discussions of 14thĬentury religious controversies and political squabbles, Umberto Eco's
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