Umberto Eco Box

The Name of the Rose , The Prague Cemetery and Foucault's Pendulum , three of Umberto Eco's greatest novels in luxury editions in this box set worthy of one of the most important authors of the 20th century, with content never before published in Brazil.

It's impossible to deny Umberto Eco's importance in the most diverse fields of human sciences in the 20th century. But his contribution to literature is also undeniable. The Italian always masterfully combined his theoretical knowledge with writing skill, creating novels that achieved not only critical acclaim but also bestsellers. And in this box set, these works find editions that do justice to their grandeur. In addition to the exquisite graphic design, it also features a booklet written by Raphael Salomão Khède, professor of Italian language and literature at UERJ, and illustrations never before seen in Brazil by Umberto Eco himself in preparation for The Name of the Rose . A must-have for literature lovers.

The Name of the Rose (616 pages)

In his first novel, Eco creates a detective story set in the 14th century in a Franciscan monastery in Italy. Suspicion of heresy looms large in this monastery, and Friar William of Baskerville is sent to investigate. However, this delicate mission is interrupted by seven eccentric murders. The deaths, under unusual circumstances, of seven monks in seven days and seven nights drive a violent narrative, captivating for its humor and cruelty, malice and erotic sedition. These crimes force Friar William to act as a detective. He searches for evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and works tirelessly in the mysterious labyrinth that is the monastery, where extraordinary events occur in the early hours of the morning.

The Prague Cemetery (424 pages)

A treatise on the mechanism of hatred and a kind of synthesis of the history of prejudice, this book caused discomfort in conservative sectors of Italian society by mixing historical figures with a fictional, cynical, and Machiavellian antihero, capable of anything to exact revenge on priests, Jesuits, communists, and, especially, Jews. The odious Simonini, defined by Eco as one of the most repulsive literary characters ever created, is a master of disguise and conspiracy. From northeastern Italy to Sicily, from the slums of Paris to German taverns, passing through the bombing of Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, and the Dreyfus affair, Simonini represents all the revolutions, the bad choices, the mistakes of the 19th century, which Eco reconstructs with historical rigor.

Foucault's Pendulum (680 pages)

Bored from reading and rereading occult science manuscripts, Casaubon, Belbo, and Diatallevi, three Garamond editors in Milan in the early 1980s, concoct a hoax connecting medieval Knights Templar to occult groups throughout the centuries. Obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the location of where all the powers of Earth can be controlled—located in Paris, on Foucault's pendulum. However, by fate, the joke becomes all too real. When occult groups, including Satanists, hear about the Plan, their quest for control of Earth knows no bounds.