The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code". Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna. He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many essays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in the Piedmontese mountainside. Eco received a Salesian education, and he has made references to the order and its founder in his works and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym of ex caelis oblatus (Latin: a gift from the heavens), which was given to his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official. His father was the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto to become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas and earning his BA in philosophy in 1954. During this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of faith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and also lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group of avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had befriended at RAI (Gruppo 63) became an important and influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially true after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema estetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at his alma mater. In September 1962, he married Renate Ramge, a German art teacher with whom he has a son and a daughter. He divides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation house near Rimini.

出版者:Harvest Books

作者:Umberto Eco

页数:502

译者:William Weaver

出版时间:1994-9-28

价格:USD 15.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780156001311

图书标签:UmbertoEco小说宗教推理英文原版意大利符号外国文学

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectacular popular and critical success, "The Name of the Rose" is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

读后感

这本书里探讨了很多有趣的问题，故事本身倒不怎么出人意料，倒是辩论中能看到很多不同的观念，涉及各种领域，有启发性。有可能的话值得再好好回味一下。  

此书不仅挑战推理能力，更挑战的是宗教学和哲学知识，极其混乱的中古欧洲基督教呀，没有维基百科能读懂此书的人那绝对是学者水平的。 1.”耶稣笑了吗？“从来没想过这个问题，各个福音书里的确是没有提到耶稣笑过这样一件事情。那么耶稣喜欢笑吗？中古欧洲的基督教传道士真是...  

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用户评价

in the labyrinth of time and space, I cannot get a clue

作者搭起一个侦探小说的架子，装进一本历史小说，一本探讨存在、真理、人性的哲学小说，一个人物结构语言皆精彩纷呈的文本舞台。变态啊，过瘾啊！读者过瘾，作者写起来更是爽到不能自拔吧。

修道院大火三天三夜 一切的徒劳无功却让我心里异常平静

卧槽里面所有的拉丁文都没有翻译。。各种名词信手拈来，能不借助wikipedia还有google translate把这本书读下来的都是人才惹。。

“现代性的神学起源”的戏剧化呈现。平安夜在梵蒂冈排队的时候读完了这本书，为今年的阅读旅程画上了句号。