Knowledge in Name of the Rose

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On page 286 Adso is shocked to find that the library in this Italian monastery has a different purpose to most, “And is a library, then, as instrument not for distributing the truth but for delaying it’s appearance?” The library’s political purposes override its theoretical one, which is to spread knowledge, and this is one of the novel’s greatest ironies...
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One could hence assume that the library and the monk’s existence is futile in a non-postmodernist sense as they are reproducing and preserving works that they will never intentionally release into society. Eco most deftly portrays the great power of knowledge through perhaps the novel’s most interesting character, William of Baskerville...
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