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This narrator writes a preface titled “Naturally, A Manuscript,” in which he gives an account how he found a copy of the manuscript by the fourteenth-century German monk Adso of Melk. He explains how he has edited and presented the manuscript, and the division of the story into units corresponding to the abbey’s hours of prayer. The narrator’s preface adds yet another dimension of “intertextuality” to the novel by establishing that the story readers are about to hear is a transcription of a translation, and it also introduces the idea of the instability of symbols and their meanings by suggesting that the text’s authenticity is uncertain.
Unnamed Narrator Quotes in The Name of the Rose
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"Naturally, A Manuscript" and Prologue
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I concluded that Adso’s memoirs appropriately share the nature of the events he narrates: shrouded in many, shadowy mysteries, beginning with the identity of the author and ending with the abbey’s location, about which Adso is stubbornly, scrupulously silent.
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.
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Unnamed Narrator Quotes in The Name of the Rose
The The Name of the Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Unnamed Narrator or refer to Unnamed Narrator. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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"Naturally, A Manuscript" and Prologue
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I concluded that Adso’s memoirs appropriately share the nature of the events he narrates: shrouded in many, shadowy mysteries, beginning with the identity of the author and ending with the abbey’s location, about which Adso is stubbornly, scrupulously silent.
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.
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