ECO, Umberto.

£4,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Il nome della rosa. First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Eco's debut novel, winner of the Strega Prize in 1981, went on to sell over 50 million copies in more than 40 languages, becoming one of the most successful works of modern fiction.Il nome della rosa "gained international acclaim for its humorous blending of medieval theology and postmodern deconstruction of narrative… an 'open text', a complex novel that could hold several layers of interpretation" (Sibley, p. 244). In his Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1984), Eco remarked that he chose the title because the rose is "a symbolic figure so rich in meanings that by now it hardly has any meaning left". The novel was adapted for the screen in 1986, with Sean Connery in the leading role.

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