Reflections on The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Reflections on The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco with William Weaver (Translator)

84 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays mysterious slow-paced
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This book stems from Umberto Eco's account of the genesis of his extraordinary novel, The Name of the Rose, but, like the novel itself, it goes far beyond the particular: '...in March 1978 ... I had the urge to poison a monk.' Along the way, it to...

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