He began his writing in 1978; his idea for writing was that he felt like "poisoning a monk". This became the basis for his first novel.
The book I am examining for this essay and Eco's first novel: "The Name of the Rose" is a kind of detective story from the middle ages. It is different from your average murder mystery novel in the fact that it explores thought and philosophy that influenced how people ran their lives in the medieval era. .
The book has been likened to a "marvellous play, where philosophical discussion, theological debate, and scientific discourse all interact brilliantly on the stage of historical fiction.".
"William Weaver".
This novel typifies postmodern thought as it is taking an old concept, that is the medieval novel, and juxtaposing it with a more up to date type of fiction, which is that of a mystery novel. To me, it just represents a modern view of life and crimes in the .
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medieval era. The context in which it is written makes it very accessible to people like me who have no great knowledge of how life was lived in medieval times. .
Italo Calvino's approach to writing was somewhat different. In his book "Mr Palomar" written in 1983, Calvino put a large amount of attention on objectivity whilst ignoring consciousness. .
"Mr Palomar" is set around the character in the title. He is a model of postmodernism who is out to fight objectivity. Mr Palomar is described as "a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous". .
Mr Palomar just slides along the novel trying to resolve his emergency of reason.
Mr Palomar plays three roles through this novel. Not only is he the sole main character, but he is also the narrator, informing us, the second audience of what he is observing in the world. I say us as the second audience because Mr Palomar's third role in this novel is also to play the audience, he is observing all that he sees and interpreting it back to whoever reads the book.