KNOWLEDGE AS FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN THE THE NAME OF THE ROSE’S LABYRINTHINE LIBRARY
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https://doi.org/10.14393/TES-v2n1-2019-51195Keywords:
The Name of the Rose, labyrinth, GenesisAbstract
By drawing a parallel between the forbidden fruit of Genesis and the forbidden book of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980), this paper proposes an interpretation – aware that there are several other possible ones – to the labyrinthine library portrayed in the novel. Amid the confrontation between monks who yearn for access to knowledge and monks who forbid such access, judging it dangerous, one can see in the abbey created by Eco allusions to the fall of Adam and Eve, who are expelled from Eden for experiencing the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Based on the study of symbols (BIEDERMAN, 1992; CIRLOT, 2001; FERBER, 2007; TRESSINDER, 2012), considerations about the biblical founding myth (COTTER, 2003; TOWNER, 2001) and explanations about the labyrinth provided by the author himself (1985; 2017), it seeks to investigate relationships between prohibition, authority and knowledge in the book’s context.
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