by Umberto Eco · Carl Hanser · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446133631
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«Der Name der Rose» is the historical mystery novel by Umberto Eco, published by Carl Hanser in hardcover (654 pages, in German).
In 1327, the friar William of Baskerville and his pupil Adso of Melk arrive at an abbey for a theological debate, but soon must investigate inexplicable deaths. Their search leads them to a labyrinthine library and a web of heresies and power struggles, in an intellectual thriller combining historical, detective and philosophical fiction.
Novel originally published in Italian as «Il nome della rosa» in 1980; this 1982 German edition includes the translation by Burkhart Kroeber.
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.
