"The Name of the Rose" or Coming out of the Labirynth

The present study does not aim at demonstrating the postmodernity of Umberto Eco’s novel, The Name of the Rose, a characteristic which has already been acknowledged by the author himself and proved afterwards by literary criticism. Rather it shows how postmodernism as an alternative to the modern paradigm recovers fabulation under new auspices. The pleasure of story-telling implies the pleasure of reading which eloquently contributes to the multiplication of the visions of reality proper and and the reality of the text.

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