by Umberto Eco · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592581
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«El nombre de la rosa» is the historical and detective novel by Umberto Eco, published by Debolsillo in paperback (784 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a Benedictine abbey in 1327, it follows the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and the novice Adso as they investigate a series of mysterious deaths. The inquiry leads them to a labyrinthine library with forbidden books, in a plot that combines medieval chronicle, the Gothic novel, and the detective story.
The work was originally published in Italian in 1980 as «Il nome della rosa» and belongs to the Contemporánea collection. The Spanish translation is by Ricardo Pochtar and Tomás de la Ascensión Recio.
Readers aged 14 and over interested in historical mystery and plots set in medieval monasteries.
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.
