"When our eyes had finally grown accustomed to the gloom, the silent speech of the carved stone, accessible as it immediately was to the gaze and the imagination of anyone (for images are the literature of the layman), dazzled my eyes and plunged me into a vision that even today my tongue can hardly describe."
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Full text of "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco online.
Library holdings of the text.
"Naming the rose : essays on Eco's The name of the rose" by M. Thoman Inge
"Missing Eco: On Reading 'The Name of the Rose' as Library Criticism" by Jeffrey Garrett
"Postscript to 'The Name of the Rose'"by Umberto Eco
"The Creative Power of Semiotics: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose" by Cristoph Prang
Library holdings of the text.
"Naming the rose : essays on Eco's The name of the rose" by M. Thoman Inge
"Missing Eco: On Reading 'The Name of the Rose' as Library Criticism" by Jeffrey Garrett
"Postscript to 'The Name of the Rose'"by Umberto Eco
"The Creative Power of Semiotics: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose" by Cristoph Prang