by Umberto Eco · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788417423841
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On the 40th anniversary of its publication, we present a special edition of Umberto Eco's classic, which includes unpublished sketches by the author. The plot unfolds in a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy in 1327, where Friar William of Baskerville and his assistant, Adso of Melk, investigate a series of crimes amidst philosophical-theological disputes. Through their inquiries, the reader enters a labyrinth of murders, heresies, intrigues, and secrets, within a library guarded by a blind monk. This recreation of the medieval world is a reflection on the obsessions of contemporary man.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
