O nome da rosa pdf

However, they are unsuccessful in unraveling an endless thread of textual clues leading from one manuscript to the next prior to the arrival of the two opposed legations. As feared, the discovery of yet another body, the herbalist Severinus, leads Bernard Gui to take over the inquisition to root out the evil present in the abbey.

Bernard is ruthless. Torture is an accepted practice to disclose the works of the devil. As expected, Bernard announces he intends to inform the Pope that the Franciscan orders of Poverty should be prohibited. Nevertheless, William and Adso will solve the mystery of the labyrinth, the secret manuscript it contains, and the identity of the murderer. In keeping with my practice not to reveal any spoilers of plot, I will not address the identity of the murderer, nor the motive for the crimes.

But, I will say this. While a labyrinth may contain a solution, and one may escape its twists and turns, it is not always possible to end up with an answer that leaves no ambiguity.

There is more than one labyrinth present in Eco's wonderful work. One question relates to the interpretation of knowledge itself. Is knowledge finite? Are there universal truths? Or is it a matter of what appears to be the truth only subject to interpretation by individuals? To the librarians of the Abbey Melko, knowledge was something to be protected from disclosure. As I mentioned to one friend, the library took on the connotation of Eden's Tree of Life, from which man and woman were forbidden to eat.

It was knowledge gained from eating the forbidden fruit that led to the loss of innocence. Considering that the library contained many works considered by the librarians to be the work of infidels, it would be their purpose to hide those works from the innocent. Yet, the mere possession of that knowledge also led to its misinterpretation and the accusation of heresy. Clearly, during the heated debate between the Papal and Imperial Legations, knowledge did not exist independent of the thinker's perception.

One postulation of a particular theological theorem was subject to debate on the most minute detail out of political motivation. But, Adso may well have had the most significant statement to make regarding books and their contents. It will be one of my favorite passages: "Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books.

Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

A famous contemporary example is found in Nabokov's "Lolita. The story lines are quite similar. Nabokov has been said to have created artistic improprieties, or been subject to a phenomenon known as "cryptomnesia," a hidden memory of a story he had once read. Michael Marr, author of "The Two Lolitas," wrote, "Literature has always been a huge crucible in which familiar themes are continually recast That is "sub rosa.

The rose was the symbol of the Egyptian God Horus, most often represented by a child holding his finger to his mouth as if he were saying, "Shhhh. It reappears in Greek and Roman mythology.

By the Middle Ages, the rose had a definite meaning. In those times, when a party of individuals met in a council hall, a rose was hung over the table.

Whatever was discussed "under the rose" was secret and all parties meeting under the rose agreed that the subject of their discussions was confidential. Much lies under the surface of this novel. It was deemed by the characters to be secret. And so, I believe Eco would have us treat this novel in modo sub rosa, leaving each reader to discover its secrets in their own manner.

The further one delves, the more secrets remain to be discovered. View all 39 comments. And it stinks too! Under the guise of a medieval mystery Umberto Eco has written a diatribe on philosophical ideas and not presented all of them accurately in order to impress upon the reader how very smart he is indeed. My mommy read Bible stories to me too. I get the references Eco was making. I imagine that would disappoint him. He clearly hates novels that actually involve the reader.

Read that sentence again. Yep I said it. It will make you detest the writer. As if you will need help after finishing this torture. Did no one ever tell this guy to shut up?

Throughout these 40 pages he contradicts himself, and talks down to the reader too many times to count. There are nuggets throughout the text that if taken out of context are quite insightful and worthy of thought. Every time he presents an idea philosophical, educational, religious or other he makes the point in pages and then goes on to lecture the reader for another pages on the same point redundantly.

If those redundancies alone had been cut the text would have been pages and significantly less bad. A member of my book club picked this text, and the way the meeting for this book went clearly demonstrates its flaws. It was not a discussion and an exchange of ideas, but a lecture. When you have a group of educated people and 1 or 2 has to tell the rest of them how valuable a text is…well…I think that says it all right there.

There are quite a few fans of this text who may believe that whopper. I for one am not biting. View all 71 comments. Mar 11, Jason Pettus rated it it was amazing. Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.

I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally. The CCLaP In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" and then write reports on whether or not I think they deserve the label Book 7: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco The story in a nutshell: In one of the more fascinating stories of how a novelist was first drawn to his profession, scholar Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.

The CCLaP In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" and then write reports on whether or not I think they deserve the label Book 7: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco The story in a nutshell: In one of the more fascinating stories of how a novelist was first drawn to his profession, scholar Umberto Eco was actually an Italian history professor and Medieval expert for years before ever turning to creative writing; according to legend, it was his thrilling and exacting retelling of actual Dark Age stories that inspired his friends to keep urging him to write a novel based in those times, which he finally did in the late s.

As such, then, The Name of the Rose is a bizarre amalgam that you scarcely ever find in contemporary literature -- a genre actioner murder mystery with a lot of melodramatic elements at its core, but at the same time a detailed historical look at actual s Europe, with a big part of the reason to read this book being so that one can be exposed to the meticulous detail of Eco's prose on the subject, from the period's clothing and architecture to its religious structures and philosophies.

But on top of this, turns out that Eco is a postmodernist and accomplished semiotics expert as well, turning the book not just into a potboiler mystery and historical novel but indeed an entire thesis on the nature of language itself, on the meaning behind symbols, and on why human behavior repeats itself so often no matter which age you study, and no matter what the rationale behind such behavior during any given age.

Plotwise it's the story of a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville, which is just the start of the sly references to Sherlock Holmes Eco deliberately inserts; turns out that William is also British, a champion of logic and deductive reasoning, and even has a clueless teenage assistant named Adso who stands in symbolically for the equally clueless audience.

William is in Italy, helping a fellow monk investigate a mysterious death in the fortified abbey where the man leads; turns out, in fact, that this is one of the largest and most renowned of all the Christian Dark-Age monastery libraries, attracting an international team of egghead monks and a scholarly atmosphere more akin to modern universities.

This being a murder mystery, of course, the actual plot is something best left for the reader to discover on their own, although I'll warn you that the actual "whodunit" part isn't very suspenseful; as mentioned above, the real point of this being a murder mystery is for Eco to show just how similarly humans behaved back then as we do now, even as the times themselves inspire completely different motivations and excuses. So in other words, a lot less "I love my baby's mamma" in the s, a lot more "The devil made me do it.

Ah, but there's also a much stronger argument for this being considered a classic right now; as mentioned, many of those who study the esoteric academic field of semiotics claim that the novel is a perfect example of what they do, explained in layman's terms so that non-academes can finally get it.

As such, then, these people claim that The Name of the Rose is not just an exciting DaVinci-Code -style historical thriller, but also a densely layered examination of stories about stories about stories, of symbols about symbols about symbols, of the meaning behind meaning behind meaning. Yeah, see what they mean when they say that semiotics is a hard thing to explain to the general public?

The argument against: The main argument against this being a classic seems to be one brought up a lot with well-written yet contemporary books "contemporary" in this case being any less than half a century old -- that the book is simply too new to be able to reasonably judge whether it should rightly be called a timeless classic, one of those fabled "books you should read before you die.

It's a great book, even its critics are quick to point out, even if somewhat on the dry side at points ugh, all those debates about papal decrees ; but who's to say if anyone's going to even remember this novel a hundred years from now, or the notoriously spotty career Eco has since had as a novelist. Don't forget, Eco is mostly a scholar and historian; although considered a rockstar in the academic world, his reputation as a writer of fiction is much more contentious.

My verdict: So let's make it clear right off the bat -- that from a pure entertainment standpoint, The Name of the Rose is one of the most delightful novels I've read in years, years. It's funny, it's smart, it's insightful, it's thrilling, it's nerdy; Cheese And Rice, it's everything a lover of books could possibly ever want from a well-done one. But is it a classic? Well, unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to agree with the critics on this one; that although it could very well become a classic one day, one of those Catcher in the Rye style "one-hit wonders" that populate so many lists, I think it's simply too early to make such a call either in a positive or negative way, especially considering Eco's otherwise spotty career as a novelist.

That's part of the point of "classics" lists existing, after all, and why those who care about such lists take them so seriously; because ultimately such a designation should reflect not only how good a book itself is, but how well it's stood the test of time, of how relevant it's continued to be to generation after generation, of how timeless the author's style and word-choice.

One always has to be careful when adding newish books to such lists, especially novels less than 30 years old, because we have no idea at this point how such books are going to stand the test of time; load up your classics list with such titles, and your list suddenly becomes worthless fluff, as relevant and important as a whole evening of handing out freakin' Quill Awards.

It's for this reason that I'm excluding The Name of the Rose from my own personal Canon, although still highly encourage all of you to actually read it, just from the standpoint of pure enjoyment.

Is it a classic? Not yet View all 11 comments. Apr 20, Tim rated it it was amazing. If I had to spend a year on a desert island and was only allowed to take one book, this would be it. At first glance, it may seem to be a book largely about obscure Fourteenth Century religious controversies, heresies and sects, with a murder mystery mixed in.

But this is a book that rewards repeat readings I've just finished it for the seventh time , and the heart of the novel is in its If I had to spend a year on a desert island and was only allowed to take one book, this would be it.

But this is a book that rewards repeat readings I've just finished it for the seventh time , and the heart of the novel is in its exposition of semiotics - the world as a blizzard of signs and life and thought as their constant interpretation. The long controversy over the poverty of Christ and its application in the medieval Church forms the focus for a wide-ranging analysis of how ideals can motivate and inspire different people in different ways.

In this novel we find skeptics like William , mystical non-conformists like Umbertino de Casale , terrorists and revolutionaries like the Dolcinite heretics and rigid fundamentalists like Jorge and Bernard Gui. At the time of its first publication, the parallels between the book's religious politics and modern manifestations of the same ways of thinking, including Cold War political expediency and terrorists like the Red Brigades, would have been obvious to Italian readers.

It's not as daunting as many make out, but "Rose" is far from a light read. Eco also deliberately made the first pages a difficult read, but stick with it. All those obscure politics and odd names do make some sense after a while. Secondly, many reviewers have complained about the untranslated Latin passages. Despite what some of them have said, these are rarely more than a line or two and usually short lines at that. Medievalists will recognise most of them anyway they are quotes from the Vulgate, Occam and Aquinas and so on, and usually famous ones , but non-specialists will usually get the essence of them from their contexts.

While the mystery story forms the basis of the plot, there is a lot more to this novel than plot. The real joy of this novel is its layers of meaning, which is why it's one that can be read and re-read with new discoveries every time.

It's a delight to read and great exercise for the mind and spirit, as well as a counter to those who think the Middle Ages was simply a period of superstition and ignorance. A must read - but with your brain well and truly in high gear.

Forget Christopher Hitchens. Away with that Richard Doggins guy. For a truly penetrating look at religion and atheism, Umberto Eco, he da man. The Name of the Rose is a profoundly nihilistic book.

It is ostensibly a book about a murder mystery: A man, a monk rather, Brother William, arrives with his assistant, Adso, at an abbey high in the Italian Alps. A murder has been committed, and Brother William will apply reason and logic—a Sherlock avant la lettre—to deduce the murderer. Or does he? He d Forget Christopher Hitchens. He does indeed find out the process by which the victims die. And there is a villain. Umberto Eco stares in the abyss, and the abyss laughs mockingly back.

I was profoundly moved, depressed, and discombobulated. Five stars —whatever the hell that means. I was attracted to The Name of the Rose some years ago when I learned that its story is centered on a medieval mystery set in an Italian Abbey.

Now, I'm quite a fan of the mystery genre and I love history. Hence it went onto my "to read" pile. But it was there for quite some time, almost forgotten. But two years back, I visited the Melk Abbey, and I had a vague recollection that I've got a book in my collection that had some reference to the Abbey.

Back at home, a quick search made me realize th I was attracted to The Name of the Rose some years ago when I learned that its story is centered on a medieval mystery set in an Italian Abbey.

Back at home, a quick search made me realize that it was The Name of the Rose. And what with my interest in history, mystery genre, and my visit to Melk Abbey, the book naturally gained priority in my reading order. That is the history. Now I'll come to my reading experience.

The Name of the Rose is by no means an easy book to read. It is heavy with medieval history and religious calamities of the time. The mystery, although cleverly written, felt more like an average mystery because its plot was so disturbed by historical and religious details that poured abundantly from Eco's pen. At first, it was difficult for me to get into the book. I felt the plot to be treading uncertainly, groping in the darkness to find its true path.

Yet, though the plot suffered, I was drawn to the book as if by some magic. Eco's rich prose, through which he brings us a forgotten historical account of medieval time, recompensed enough to engage my attention. If I admired a book while still being exasperated to no end, I can easily say that The Name of the Rose falls within the category. The plot of the book revolves around a series of murders that take place in a wealthy Franciscan abbey in Italy and one Franciscan friar's attempt at finding the criminal.

The story sounds pretty interesting when summed up like that, but unfortunately, the historical and religious details make inroads into the plot and impede its smooth continuity.

As a result, the story feels disjointed and incoherent. However, Eco throws in an interesting and diverse character set that, no matter what flaws founded in the plot, the story was felt alive and moving. Eco's rich prose and humour at times when you least expect it added much to the enjoyment. Honestly, it was the history, the setting, the characters, and Eco's writing that helped me sail through it. Rating the book was quite a chore. So, I finally decided to break the story into sections and to rate it accordingly.

The plot - 3 stars; the history, setting, characters, and writing - 4 stars. The scale was heavy on the latter side, hence the overall rating of 4 stars. I'm sure this rating gives quite a clear and honest picture of the book. If you are a mystery fan and are plot-driven, and not interested in medieval history and ancient architecture, this is not for you.

But if you are quite in the opposite, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I did. View all 18 comments. Apr 27, Kevin Neilson rated it did not like it. What a didactic, tedious, prolix piece of trash! Eco writes whole paragraphs in Latin and then leaves them untranslated, because he's such an awesome polyglot that chicks want to do him. Readers are also expected to know Dutch.

Eco likes to hear himself talk, too. Want to hear pedantic 14th-century theological arguments that stretch on for pages and have nothing to do with the plot? You've got it! Want a lame Dan Brown mystery, with the same stilted dialogue, but embellished with entire chapters What a didactic, tedious, prolix piece of trash! Want a lame Dan Brown mystery, with the same stilted dialogue, but embellished with entire chapters of the author showing off how much trivia he knows about ancient Arab codices?

No problem! The guy is such a tool that this is how he describes himself on the jacket: Umberto Eco is a world-famous specialist in semiotics, a distinguished historian, philosopher, aesthetician, and scholar whose interests range from St. Thomas Aquinas to James Joyce to Superman. I'm going to hurl. More like ass thetician. Do you think I'm exaggerating? I've proof: I've copied this terrible passage wherein the hero discovers how to enter the secret chamber, using his knowledge of the genitive case in Latin.

Be careful not to hurl as you read this. I smiled. I was remembering poor Salvatore. He wanted to perform God knows what magic with that horse, and, with his fractured Latin he called him 'tertius equi.

But this is all nonsense What a fool I am! Run, run to your cell and fetch the lamp, or, rather, both lamps we hid. Let no one see you, and join me in the church at once!

Ask no questions. I ran into the church. William was under the tripod and was rereading the parchment with Venantius's notes. The writing! The verse! The words are carved over the mirror! View all 25 comments. This is one humdinger of a book - medieval history, Gothic noir and classic whodunit rolled into one. It's very slow - but taking your time to read it slowly provides rich dividends, IMO. This is a book to be savoured.

Brother William of Baskerville - the name, as well as his appearance marks him as a sort of medieval Sherlock Holmes - is the detective par excellence, and Adso of Melk is the perfect Watson.

The story unfolds in the fashion of the classic mystery. The secret, when it is revealed, This is one humdinger of a book - medieval history, Gothic noir and classic whodunit rolled into one.

The secret, when it is revealed, is sufficiently shocking - and points a finger to a real historic puzzle. A word of advice: please don't watch the movie before you read the book.

So let this be my tribute to a great writer. Jul 23, Adriana rated it liked it. I had wanted to read The Name of the Rose for a long time, mostly because I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction about the Middle Ages, and also because of its importance as a piece of modern Italian literature.

Although I liked it for the most part, I have to admit that it disappointed me in many ways. As a mystery novel, I was expecting it to be a fast-paced page-turner, whereas in reality The Name of the Rose is very slow and ponderous.

I appreciate the attention to detail and the minute and ac I had wanted to read The Name of the Rose for a long time, mostly because I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction about the Middle Ages, and also because of its importance as a piece of modern Italian literature. I appreciate the attention to detail and the minute and accurate descriptions of real historical events, but I feel that the narrators voice often became mired in these details, to the detriment of the plot. When the narrator, Adso, slipped into these trains of thought that were only tangential to the story, I frequently forgot what was going on by the time he emerged.

In addition, much of the historical background read like a text-book, and not a novel. On the positive side, the translation is done beautifully, and I can only imagine that the original Italian is even more agile and lyrical. For those who want to stick with a page novel, The Name of the Rose can be quite rewarding. I feel that I learned a lot about life in a medieval Italian monastery, and about the most important philosophical and religious concerns of the time.

I just would have preferred it if Eco had focused more on writing a cohesive, engaging novel, rather than a history lesson surrounded by the vague framework of a plot. Jun 25, Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: books-to-read-before-you-die.

I remember discussing Aristotle's Poetics at university, and the whole class started a major digression on Umberto Eco because he had that genius idea of pretending that the part where he analyses comedy isn't lost to the world.

In our idealistic young hearts, we all hoped against hope to find a manuscript not poisoned by a monk without a sense of humour, though like that, and to be able to build our academic fame on it.

Our professor took the idea apart, of course. And we learned our lesson well and stayed clear of the mixing of fiction and erudition, to the point of actually believing Umberto Eco was a bit of a cheater in both departments.

But then yesterday, I planned on getting rid of some old books as I have a tiny, tiny, hardly worth mentioning shelving problem, and I got stuck with The Name Of The Rose in my hands. I was torn between those two feelings emerging out of nowhere from my distant past: it was a great idea, and a love declaration to traditional learning and fiction, and it was, well, overstepping those very boundaries it showed so clearly.

It was all the genres and all the stories and not true at all despite in that sense of truth that only ever occurs in fiction and it was full of long, convoluted sentences and they were very much worth the time and effort I put into reading them! To make a long story short but a short shelf not any longer, unfortunately!

It is good fiction, and as such, it deserves its place on a shelf! Problem unsolved, I am moving on. Oct 08, Beata rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. This novel belongs to the few ones which I reread at least twice yearly. It;s one of the best novels ever written. I've been the admirer of The Name of the Rose for many, many years now, and I remember reading it for the first time when I was in high school.

I reckon I didn't understand much then regarding the dispute which is the theme around which this novel revolves. Now, with every read, I discover something new View all 21 comments. A surprising novel, masquerading as a piece of historical fiction, all very proper inside its fake framing narrative, but also managing to be a spoof murder-mystery. The main character is William of Baskerville who has a Watson like side-kick.

He may not use cocaine but he does eat 'certain herbs' and some of his description is lifted from that of a famous resident of Baker Street. And wait, a isn't a monastery with it's hidden conflicts, somewhat isolated from everyday life, and desires awfully A surprising novel, masquerading as a piece of historical fiction, all very proper inside its fake framing narrative, but also managing to be a spoof murder-mystery.

And wait, a isn't a monastery with it's hidden conflicts, somewhat isolated from everyday life, and desires awfully similar in some ways to a country house?

However in line with Eco's approach the resolution is more sheer luck than sherlock. The title suggestively evokes The Romance of the Rose , although here the beloved flower projected in the walled garden is not an allegorical representation of woman but of learning and the power of knowledge to transform our outlook on the world.

The figure of Jealously literally embodied in the monk who protects this great treasure, not simply with a castle's walls but inside a labyrinth library with a secret reading room. The form of the labyrinthine library is taken from Borges The Library of Babel and so the story proceeds with layers of references to surprise and amuse, however if you are in danger of floundering among them the trick is to find out what the hidden book at the centre of the library is all about and to keep that in mind for every reread.

The relationship between truth, myth and invention is a theme that In the Name of the Rose shares with Foucaults Pendulum and Baudolino. Here we are introduced to the mysterious room and its hidden content which we can take as a metaphor for the meaning of life or the quest for meaning in life maybe , but with intelligence, guile and luck the heroes can know the truth. In Foucaults Pendulum by contrast the hidden room is unreachable view spoiler [which given the ending of In the Name of the Rose is unsurprising!

The problem in Eco's universe is not the hidden room or its contents but in the attitude of people towards it. In Foucaults Pendulum the Diabolicals take it terribly seriously with fatal consequences, here, its protector fears the content so terribly that no one can remain safe, yet that book seems to me to embody Eco's attitude to all readers of these three books view spoiler [ in other words, don't take it too seriously hide spoiler ].

God fun with theology and medieval philosophising and good fun for all readers. Yes please! But I am a huge nerd and I liked all that weird stuff! Eco introduces his story with the device of the found manuscript: the narrator, Adso, was just a novice monk when the events he put on the page took place, but now, in his old age, he feels the need to tell the story of how his master, an unusual monk by the name of William of Baskerville, solved the strange deaths that plagued a Tuscan monastery over the course of a very strange week.

But it is truly amazing to find a book that blends the mystery so well with the historical description of every detail of life encountered by Adso, deep reflections on the nature of language and human behavior, and the theological reasons behind schisms between the various religious communities of the 14th century.

Yes, it would have made for a more reader-friendly novel if only some damn footnotes had been inserted here and there, but I actually thought that there were more than enough context clues to make sense of everything that was going on.

And despite the rather heavy subject matter, it is a very readable book! Also, it is surprisingly funny! Those themes are also strikingly contemporary and relevant. And of course, the love of books! Eco was obviously book-mad, in the best possible way, and his love of books of all kinds is palpable in his descriptions of the library and its content, the loving ways monks talk about their work, and the passionate speeches Baskerville makes about their meaning.

Highly recommended! Mar 18, Stephen rated it it was amazing Shelves: sherlockian , love-those-words , classics-european , 6-star-books , all-time-favorites , historical-fiction , , classics , mystery , books-about-books. On my list of "All Time Favorite" novels. This incredible book is the newest entry onto my list of favorite novels of all time.

Reading this book was a one of a kind literary experience that I highly recommend everyone experience. The basic plot of the novel is an excellent murder mystery set in an Italian monastery during the 14th century and featuring an excellent "Sherlock Holmes" type character named William of Baskerville. As good as the basic plot is, the real essence of the sto 6. As good as the basic plot is, the real essence of the story is a exposition on the nature of philosophies, beliefs and the ability of man to obtain knowledge of universal truths.

Apart from the above general description, this is a really tough book to describe in detail because there is so much going on throughout the narrative. I will simply end by saying that it is superbly written, highly detailed, never boring and at pages I wish it was longer as I was not ready for the book to end.

Definitely one that I will re-read several times. We more readily remember the film than the book, and today I admit that the two mix, but I enjoyed both so much! Eco's writing is very erudite, detailed, but still pleasant to read; the delicacy of the descriptions architecture, characters, books is an absolute pleasure.

We are an absolute thriller with suspense, intrigues, and an investigator as fine as mysterious, a closed and scary world! Surreptitiously sailing under the banner of what seems at first glance to be a traditional — and thus holding the promise of mass appeal - detective story, the recently deceased Italian semiotician clearly is reaching for a far more rich tapestry of genres — some tropes of which maintained, others slightly subverted - and themes.

The second category will be impassioned by the debate of ideas, and will attempt to establish connections which the author refuses to authorize with the present. A murder mystery in the Sherlockian tradition would indeed serve nicely as a cover.

As our Holmes, there is the seasoned monk, logician and erstwhile inquisitor William of Baskerville a clear reference to the famous Holmes tale Hound of the Baskervilles , ordered to investigate a mysterious death in an Italian abbey, and the young, impressionable novice monk Adso, performing the role of Watson, through whom the various events are described.

A solution so exceedingly simple, yet ingeniously executed. The two make an intriguing pair of sleuths, to great relish of the reader.

An Apocalypse worldly, spiritually, or both is at hand, or so it seems. That the pursuit of the one, absolute "truth" in all things material, moral, and spiritual as a goal in itself, is a dangerous one, seems to be the underlying message. For after its acquisition and its sealing off from harmful outer influences, there invariably follows its ruthless application by lesser, power-hungry, ideologically ossified minds, ending in brutal, totalitarian tyranny.

A warning to be heeded. Sic transit gloria mundi. View all 7 comments. Aug 18, picoas picoas rated it really liked it Shelves: If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. It makes me keen to explore the labyrinth of his philosophy, which seems to exist in a realm of its own immune from the tedium and d If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.

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