Postscript To The Name of the Rose.

ECO, Umberto.

ISBN 10: 015173156X / ISBN 13: 9780151731565

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1984

About this Item

First U.S. edition / First printing. Promotional copy with Not For Resale stamped on the title page. Blue cloth. ix, 84 pages. Fine with Not For Resale stamped on title page in price-clipped, about fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 8258-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postscript To The Name of the Rose.
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015173156X
• ISBN 13: 9780151731565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Essays

About this title

Synopsis

This book stems from Umberto Eco's account of the genesis of his extraordinary novel, The Name of the Rose, but, like the novel itself, it goes far beyond the particular: '...in March 1978 ... I had the urge to poison a monk.' Along the way, it touches on bad books, ideal readers, historical form, and the metaphysics of the detective story.

Language Notes

Text: English, Italian (translation)