Showing posts with label manuscripts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manuscripts. Show all posts

Monday, 22 February 2016

Distant Eco

In the light of the sad passing of Umberto Eco, I am tickled to discover - turning, for the first time, to the opening pages of The Name of the Rose - that the 'missing' manuscript on which Eco's first and still most famous novel is entirely predicated is only missing because a woman 'he' was sleeping with ran off with it.