Notes on the Margins of The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco (b. 1932) wrote six novels: the planetary bestseller "The Name of the Rose", the famous "Foucault's Pendulum", "The Island of the Day Before", "Baudolino", "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" and "Prague Cemetery". These books are considered engaging but also complex; clear, yet full of mysteries. That is why readers, excited by intellectual games under the sign of romance, in a spirit of humor, willingly reread these books, discuss, and argue. Only once did the author himself enter the circle of debaters and interpreters, writing an intelligent, cheerful, and very engaging commentary: "Notes on the Margins of The Name of the Rose". This text is most similar to a blog. However, let us not forget that it was created before the appearance of all the blogs in the world, before the invention of the internet and even before the spread of personal computers.