by Umberto Eco · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152098
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«El nombre de la rosa» is the historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Diario El País in paperback (575 pages, in Spanish).
Novel set in a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy in 1327: Brother William of Baskerville, a former inquisitor, investigates a series of murders linked to a forbidden book hidden in a labyrinthine library. The narrative combines intrigue, medieval history and philosophical debate around power, heresy and knowledge.
This copy is number 5 of the El País - Historical Novel collection; the work was translated into Spanish from Italian, where it was published as Il nome della rosa.
Recommended for fans of historical fiction and mystery set in the Middle Ages.
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.
