The Name of the Rose

 

The name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

Fray Guillermo de Baskerville arrives at an Abbey in Italy to investigate the death of a monk. He arrives with Adso, his servant. While they are investigating, more people die. The victims all have something in common: they all have their mouths and hands stained with ink, so he guesses that they died because of the ink.

Eventually Fray Guillermo finds a library where the monks keep the church’s forbidden books, and a book written in Latin about many sins and forbidden themes for the church, and apparently monks die when they read it.

The cultural level of the monks was not very high, and they subjugated the village for their own benefit.

Personal opinion:

The descriptions are really amazing, and I really enjoyed the description of the Abbey, although I think there were too many descriptions.

The theme was really interesting, and described from an interesting point of view.

Miguel Pérez Polanco (4º ESO)