Fiction
Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco's Postscript began as the Norton Lectures at Harvard and functions as a long footnote to the novel that made him famous against his will. He discusses semiotics, medievalism, and the problem of writing a bestseller when you were trained as a scholar, with the patient self-regard of a man who has given this talk many times. It is less an explanation of The Name of the Rose than a portrait of the reader Eco did not expect.Harcourt's edition presents the lectures in a slim hardcover format, useful for readers who finished the novel and still have questions. A scholar's apology and a celebrity's complaint; best suited to readers who enjoy watching a smart man pretend he is not enjoying his own success.
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