![]() We get William of Baskerville representing Sherlock Holmes. We have Jorge de Burgos representing Jorge Luis Borges. They are all in plain sight through the characters. It draws on a bunch of sources and amalgamates them to a strange hybrid a reader from any of these backgrounds could appreciate on a different level.Įco doesn’t hide the pieces. ![]() The Name of the Rose isn’t a historical work or pure fiction or a mystery novel or postmodernist metafiction or theology. This character is a synecdoche for the book itself. It takes from all the common languages and merges into a strange thing anyone can understand.Įco doesn’t do this in the abstract, either the speech is written out fully. He can’t speak any known language, but he’s lived in so many places that he’s developed his own. Early on, we get one of my favorite characters. ![]()
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