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The Name of the Rose

Historical Fiction and Romance

The Name of the Rose, published in Italian as Il nome della rosa, is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, translated into English by William Weaver in 1983. The novel has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling books ever published, and received many international awards including the Strega Prize in 1981 and the Prix Medicis Etranger in 1982. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Audience
General 1
Original Language
Italian 1
Award
Strega Prize 1
Composed, From (Year)
1980 1
FAQs

What does the title The Name of the Rose mean?

Eco chose it as a deliberately neutral title, because the rose has so many meanings it hardly has any left.

Umberto Eco said he wanted a totally neutral title, and accounts of how he arrived at this one differ. In the Postscript to the novel, he says he chose it because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in meanings that by now it hardly has any meaning left. He also suggested that the title disorients the reader, allowing multiple interpretations rather than a prescribed one.
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Umberto Eco, Authors
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Historical Fiction, Genres
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Original Language

Italian

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Originated In

Italy

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    The Name of the Rose...is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.
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    The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. It was translated into English by William Weaver in 1983.
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    The Name of the Rose...is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.
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    a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Strega Prize, 1981.
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