The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco, 1980
A murder mystery inside a labyrinthine medieval library, where a novice and his detective-monk argue theology, read forbidden books, and count the dead.
Umberto Eco
Eco was a semiotician and medievalist who said he wrote the novel because he felt like it — and because he wanted to poison a monk.
Feels like curiosity, faith and power.
The most frightening evil is the kind that never doubts itself.
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. Books by Umberto Eco
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