by Umberto Eco · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749336462
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«The Name of the Rose» is the historical mystery novel by Umberto Eco, published by Vintage in paperback (502 pages, in English).
In 1327, a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, arrives at an Italian abbey to investigate inexplicable deaths. His search leads him to a labyrinthine library where forbidden books are hidden, as he unravels a web of heresies, symbols, and power struggles alongside his young disciple Adso of Melk.
Work originally published in Italian as «Il nome della rosa» in 1980; this edition uses the translation by William Weaver. Film Tie-In edition.
For readers of historical fiction and classic mystery, with special interest in the Middle Ages and in plots of symbols and scholarship.
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.
