Reflections on The Name of the Rose  

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"I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence." --Reflections on The Name of the Rose (1983) by Umberto Eco

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Postille a il nome della rosa (1983) is a book by Umberto Eco. It was translated as Reflections on The Name of the Rose in 1984. It has also been published as Postscript to The Name of the Rose.


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