The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco • 1980
Devastation Rating
historical literary fiction philosophical injustice
Our Take
A monk-detective in a medieval monastery where monks are dying and books are forbidden and knowledge itself is the crime. Eco writes the Middle Ages as a world terrifyingly like our own — where truth is controlled and curiosity punished. The library burns and you feel what is lost.
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