But the interesting point is that neither Borgess name nor his books are explicitly mentioned they are, instead, alluded to. I am not a philistine by any means and will usually read anything. less references to books and writers which appear throughout The Name of the Rose reinforce our feeling of definitely being in Borgesian surroundings. The introduction of the murder was interesting.īut I don't know. I do enjoy the story I've enjoyed the brief moments when William was talking with the Abo, or the cellarer and displaying his Holmes-like acumen. I don't know if it is his verbosity, his somewhat inane descriptions, his rather confusing word choice at times (which again makes me feel that this is a result of the work not being translated well).I don't know at times I just walk away feeling confused. The first meeting with Salvatore was particularly difficult Adso states that everyone should be able to understand what he is saying and I just felt incredibly confused as to what I was supposed to get out of the 4-5 paragraphs of Salvatore's speech.Īuthors do this at times and usually it doesn't bother me, but I think this feeling of confusion is compounded because of the second reasonĢ.) The author has a rather strange way of writing. Initially I thought there might be an appendix at the back or something, but alas no. After two days, I'm only about 50 pages in its a small amount and it took me quite a while to get through those pages.Ī couple possible reasons for this difficulty: 1.) The book uses a fair amount of Latin, and it is quite frustrating that you don't know what the characters/narrator are talking about.

As a follow-up to my inquiry from a few weeks ago, I finally picked up Eco's book from my local library.īut I have to confess that I am having a HARD time getting through it.

Author the name of the rose