... turn to murder. A gifted young illuminator, Adelmo, is killed; the next morning a second monk is found dead, plunged head first into a barrel of pigs' blood. Surprisingly enough, toward the end of the book it turns out that all those horrible crimes were committed for highly ethical reasons and furthermore, by a ... fact the truth, beautiful and impressive in all its prestige which resembles the petals but deathly to grasp like the thorns. Sometimes the characters seem unrealistic. The characters are a mere plot device, they do not seem like real people. It is obvious that Eco talks to ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate