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Original Title: | Il nome della rosa |
ISBN: | 0156001314 (ISBN13: 9780156001311) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | William of Baskerville, Adso of Melk, Abo of Fossanova, Severinus of Sankt Wendel, Malachi of Hildesheim, Berengar of Arundel, Venantius of Salvemec, Jorge of Burgos, Remigio of Varagine, Salvatore of Montferrat, Nicholas of Morimondo, Ubertino of Casale, Bernard Gui, Benno of Uppsala, Alinardo of Grottaferrata, Michael of Cesena |
Setting: | Italian Benedictine monastery,1327(Italy) Italy,1327 |
Literary Awards: | إمبيرتو, Premio Strega (1981), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1984), PEN Translation Prize for William Weaver (1984), Premio Anghiari (1981) Premio Il Libro dell'anno (1981), Prix Médicis Etranger (1982), このミステリーがすごい! for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (1991) |
Umberto Eco
Paperback | Pages: 536 pages Rating: 4.12 | 281771 Users | 8224 Reviews
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The year is 1327. Benedictines 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, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.”Specify Containing Books The Name of the Rose
Title | : | The Name of the Rose |
Author | : | Umberto Eco |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 536 pages |
Published | : | September 28th 1994 by Harvest Books (first published 1980) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. Magic. Science Fiction Fantasy. High Fantasy. Science Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 281771 Users | 8224 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Name of the Rose
This book is both astonishingly difficult and extremely rewarding. I had six years of Latin in middle and high school and have taken a course on medieval philosophy and I still found this one both challenging and satisfying. Anyone willing to put the work in is going to adore this one.WARNING, however: this is not a trashy medieval-conspiracy novel. This is not a thriller. It is an excellent book and a perfect mystery, but it is still set in the 14th century and all of the characters are stillForget Christopher Hitchens. Away with that Richard Doggins guy. 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. A murder has been committed, and Brother William will apply reason and logica Sherlock avant la lettreto deduce the murderer. Or does he? He
I remember discussing Aristotle's Poetics at university, and the whole class started a major digression on Umberto Eco because he had that genius idea of pretending that the part where he analyses comedy isn't lost to the world. In our idealistic young hearts, we all hoped against hope to find a manuscript (not poisoned by a monk without a sense of humour, though) like that, and to be able to build our academic fame on it. Well! Our professor took the idea apart, of course. "It is absolutely
Eco's writing is so infectious, lively, and likeable that I thought it appropriate to pen my review in his style.1. In which I, as reader, feel used.Yes, I'm almost certain Eco wrote this thing for the sole purpose of informing us of how knowledgeable he is of the finer points of monastic orders, book trivia, and medieval philosophy. Knowing most would not put up with this crap for 500 pages, he wisely chose to interrupt his many digressions on poverty, heretics, whether or not Jesus laughed,
Eco's writing is so infectious, lively, and likeable that I thought it appropriate to pen my review in his style.1. In which I, as reader, feel used.Yes, I'm almost certain Eco wrote this thing for the sole purpose of informing us of how knowledgeable he is of the finer points of monastic orders, book trivia, and medieval philosophy. Knowing most would not put up with this crap for 500 pages, he wisely chose to interrupt his many digressions on poverty, heretics, whether or not Jesus laughed,
What a didactic, tedious, prolix piece of trash! Eco writes whole paragraphs in Latin and then leaves them untranslated, because he's such an awesome polyglot that chicks want to do him. Readers are also expected to know Dutch. Eco likes to hear himself talk, too. Want to hear pedantic 14th-century theological arguments that stretch on for pages and have nothing to do with the plot? You've got it! Want a lame Dan Brown mystery, with the same stilted dialogue, but embellished with entire chapters
I had first come across the books name while searching for the top mystery novels on the internet a long time back. The book appears in both the top 100 mystery/crime novel lists published by the Britain-based Crime Writers' Association and by the Mystery Writers of America.The subject matter of the story a monk investigating murders in a medieval European monastery piqued my interest. Therefore, when I found the book during one of my book hunts I was extremely excited. I was expecting a superb
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