The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I've started reading this book some months ago. It took me a while to read it not because I was not enjoying it but because it's a very dense book, full of meanings and many times dark and melancolic like the medieval times. So I had to pause from time to time. Eco uses a detective story to let us dive in the theological and political concepts that reigned in that period in time. A very thick story of monks and religion, inquisitor and heretics, showing us the mind set of people of that time, whom used relligion to gain control over other people, specially the said simple minded. No one is pure or rightful, they are all govern by pride or lust or corruption which makes a high contrast with the rational and skepict William of Baskerville who bring some light in this shadowed and dogmatic world.



I've really liked the discussions about poverty and it was really a shame it ended so badly (although completely within the moral standards for that time). It made a lot of sense to my optimistic and Utopic mind.



It is a book to be read many times to fully understand and appreciate its content with a higly beneficial secondary effect of trigging my imagination.



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