Postscript to the Name of the Rose
By (author): "Umberto Eco"
Publish Date:
April 1983
ISBN015173156X
ISBN139780151731565
AsinPostscript to the Name of the Rose
Original titlePostille a Il nome della rosa
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.