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there is an Indian proverb that goes, “Sit on the bank of a river and wait: your enemy’s corpse will soon float by.”
was through Spanish commentaries and illumination that the Apocalypse influenced the entire Middle Ages.
the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises.
to make the old Adso constantly present as he ponders what he remembers having seen and felt as the young Adso.
This enunciative duplicity fascinated and excited me very much. Also because—to return to what I was saying about the mask—in doubling Adso I was once more doubling the series of interstices, of screens, set between me as a biographical personality, me as narrating author, the first-person narrator, and the characters narrated, including the narrative voice.
The speaker, in other words, claims he will not speak of something that everyone knows perfectly well, and as he is saying this, he speaks of the thing.
A text is meant to be an experience of transformation for its reader. You believe you want sex and a criminal plot where the guilty party is discovered at the end, and all with plenty of action, but at the same time you would be ashamed to accept old-fashioned rubbish made up of the living dead, nightmare abbeys, and black penitents.
a mystery in which very little is discovered and the detective is defeated).
there is a final celebratory triumph of order (intellectual, social, legal, and moral) over the disorder of evil.
We could say that, strangely, the most ingenuous readings were the most “structural”: the ingenuous reader entered into direct contact, beyond any mediation of content, with the fact that it is impossible for there to be a story.
Due to thbe chaotic nature of reality
If “postmodern” means this, it is clear why Sterne and Rabelais were postmodern, why Borges surely is, and why in the same artist the modern moment and the postmodern moment can coexist, or alternate, or follow each other closely. Look at Joyce. The Portrait is the story of an attempt
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Romance is the story of an elsewhere.
Ubertino or Michael had really existed
