Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
84 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 015173156X
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Language: English
Publish: 441792000000
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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 touches on bad books, ideal readers, historical form, and the metaphysics of the detective story.