It’s just this very complex mindset that’s really different from our own and because I knew nothing about it, it was just terribly exciting to be taken off into this world.” Read more. It’s also very good storytelling, but the part I remember was the sort of library filled with knowledge and these games, which teased you with knowing things and not knowing things. Yet there was something amazing about this belief that you could classify knowledge. At university, I read lots of French books referring to this medieval period where all knowledge was supposed to be classified, and re-classified and super-classified, and it became sort of idiotic, this academic approach that these monks had.
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It is about the adventure of a Franciscan friar and his novice in medieval Italy and it is part murder mystery, part game with semiotics and medieval knowledge. The Name of the Rose is a dark homicide riddle set in a fourteenth-century Italian Christian religious community. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. I had no idea at the time that the medieval mindset was any different to the modern one. The Name of the Rose is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. “I read this a few years ago and it was one of those books you always remember because it creates a whole new way of thinking. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller.His other works include Foucaults Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.
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