Write your abstract here.WHEN ASKED WHY UMBERT ECO HAD DECIDED TO WRITE THE NAME OF THE ROSE, HE QUAINTLY ANSWERED: "BECAUSE I HAD THIS URGING DESIRE TO KILL A MONK". UMBERTO ECO NOT ONLY MURDERS A FEW MONKS IN THIS 1980 BEST SELLER, BUT HE DOES IT IN A SUPERB AND METAPHYSICALLY POETIC WAY THAT ONE CAN´T HELP BUT FEEL FASCINATED BY HIS ART.THE NAME OF THE ROSE IS A TALE TOLD BY A MASTER CRAFTSMAN WHO PAINSTAKINGLY RECREATES THE MONASTICAL LIFE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES IN AN ATTEMPT TO PLUNDGE US INTO THE DARKES AGES OF RELIGION AND CORRUPTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.ITS MAIN CHARACTER, AN ENGLISH MONK BY THE NAME OF WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE, A REMINISENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, IS SENT BY THE CHURCH TO INVESTIGATE AN ITALIAN ABBY SUSPECTED OF HERECY. BUT HIS INVESTIGATIONS ARE PUT ON HOLD WHEN SUDDENLY, MONKS ARE BEING MURDERED TO THE TUNE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION.SEVEN GROTESQUE MURDERS IN SEVEN DAYS OF HORROR AND CONFUSION IN WHICH THE WHOLE ABBY IS SUSPECT. WITH EACH MURDER, THERE IS A MESSAGE TO BE READ. THE NOVEL IS WRITTEN IN THIS LAPSE OF SEVEN DAYS, (DIVIDED INTO THE LITURGICAL HOURS) IN WHICH EACH DAY AWAKES WITH THE NEWS OF A NEW GREUSOME MURDER THAT DEPICTS EACH OF THE SEALS THAT ARE TO BE OPENED DURING THE APOCALYPSE.
WITH EACH DEATH, WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE, AND HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT ADSO COMES CLOSER TO SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE ABBY AS HE INTERVIEWS THE INHABITANTS AND DISCOVERS THAT LIFE IN THE ABBY IS NOT WHAT ONE WOULD EXPECT. THERE IS LUST, SODOMY, HOMOSEXUALITY, GREED, PRIDE, AND OFCOURSE, HERECY.BROTHER WILLIAM, USING LOGIC AND REASON, ATTEMPTS TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTER OF THE MURDERS, WHICH LEAD HIM TO THE SECRET LIBRARY AND THE LABYRINTH THAT HIDES AN EVEN GREATER SECRET. THE NAME OF THE ROSE IS A BOOK FILLED WITH MYSTERY, PHILOSOPHY, SYMBOLISM AND CODED MANUSCRIPTS; NAMES, DATES AND HISTORICAL ACOUNTS THAT MAKE YOU WISH YOU HAD PAID MORE ATTENTION IN CLASS, AND A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF ECOS FAVORITE WRITERS: JORGE LUIS BORGES. THE NAME OF THE ROSE IS A PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL, FAITH AND HERECY, LOGIC AND MADNESS ALLENCASED IN A BRILLIANT DETECTIVE STORY WITH THE TEMPO OF A HOLLYWOOD THRILLER. A SUPERB NOVEL FOR THE DAUNTLESS.