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Eco, Umberto

(Alessandria 1932 - Milano 2016)

The Name of the Rose - Seven Years of Desire, Chronicles 1977-1983 - Baudolino, 1980

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First edition 1980, Bompiani publishing house. Editorial cloth with dust jacket. First edition, first print run. Complete with the price tag of the first print run: «L. 10,000». With this debut novel, Eco won the 1981 Strega Prize. It was made into an epochal film, with Sean Connery as the famous Friar William of Baskerville. With over 50 million copies sold worldwide and translated into more than 40 languages, this is one of the best-selling books ever published. The Name of the Rose “won international acclaim for its humorous fusion of medieval theology and postmodern deconstruction of narrative; it represented the same union of medieval scholasticism and contemporary popular culture that had defined Eco’s earlier research. The book’s astonishing success put Eco at the centre of global attention… The Name of the Rose was an ‘open text’, a complex novel that could accommodate several levels of interpretation” (Sibley, p. 244). The sense of ambiguity and uncertainty that permeates the story is reflected in the title; in his later postscript to The Name of the Rose (1984), Eco explains that he chose it “because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in meaning that it has almost no meaning at all”.
Also included in the lot are Seven Years of Desire, Chronicles 1977-1983 , first edition 1983, published by Bompiani. Editorial cloth with dust jacket.

A paperback edition of The Name of the Rose , published by Bompiani in 2000, signed by the author;

Closing the lot is the first edition of 2000 by Baudolino , published by Bompiani. Editorial cloth with dust jacket;