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A review by sidharthvardhan
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
4.0
The only problem with Eco is that he gives too much of credit to his readers. If it wasn't for internet, all those Latin phrases and paragraphs would have been Latin to me. I wonder how people read such books in pre-internet days.
The story is a lot like a medieval Sherlock adventure in a monastery with a lot of theological discussion thrown in for good effect. William is the Sherlock and Adel, his disciple, watsonises for him.
There is a lot of hypocrisy, misanthropy and misogyny in Monks -with the only women who made it to the book, being brutally killed without being given a chance to defend herself.
The Rose of title is knowledge contained in library - which monks are keeping from the world while telling themselves world is not ready for it.
The story is a lot like a medieval Sherlock adventure in a monastery with a lot of theological discussion thrown in for good effect. William is the Sherlock and Adel, his disciple, watsonises for him.
There is a lot of hypocrisy, misanthropy and misogyny in Monks -with the only women who made it to the book, being brutally killed without being given a chance to defend herself.
The Rose of title is knowledge contained in library - which monks are keeping from the world while telling themselves world is not ready for it.