Umberto Eco, PREFACE InterpretationĪs the story progresses more and more characters are introduced and each has their own motives for greed, although they don’t all act upon them. Or, if you like, a way of ridding myself of numerous, persistent obsessions. I really don’t know why I have decided to pluck up my courage and present, as if it were authentic, the manuscript of Adso of Melk. It’s in this time which William and Adso must work to find the true circumstances around Adelmo’s death found at the bottom of the tallest tower. Vespers – Around 4:30, at sunset (the Rule prescribes eating supper before dark).Ĭompline – Around 6:00 (before 7:00, the monks go to bed). Nones – Between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. Sext – Noon (in a monastery where the monks did not work in the fields, it was also the hour of the midday meal in winter). Prime – Around 7:30, shortly before daybreak. Lauds – (which in the most ancient tradition were called “Matutini” or “Matins”) between 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning, in order to end at dawn.
Matins – (which Adso sometimes refers to by the older expression “Vigiliae”) between 2:30 and 3:00 in the morning. These days are then divided up further to represent different times of the day. Starting each chapter is a brief description of what’s to come, written in third-person.įurthermore, it’s split into seven chapters that span the course of one week at the Abbey. It’s a translated manuscript given to our author, Umberto Eco, by Abbé Vallet. The book opens with a transcript describing the book, or how it’s in fact not a book. This leads both of our antagonists down a dark well of torment, treachery and religious righteousness that could cost them more than their honour. Think of them as the Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson of the monk-detective-business. William, along with Adso, is tasked by the Abbey’s abbot Abo with investigating the death and finding any possible causes.
He was known for his great drawings of mythical beasts, especially those concerning religious symbology.
The monastery has recently suffered a death, Adelmo of Otranto, an illustrator at the abbey. The abbey is an embassy between Pope John XXII, and the Friars Minor, who are suspected of heresy. The year is 1327 Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his apprentice Adso arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Italy to attend a religious debate. It’s a murder mystery ‘ who-done-it’ set in an Italian monastery in 1327. The Name of the Rose (Italian: IL nome della Rosa) is the debut novel by author Umberto Eco in 1980.
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