“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.”
Quoted in Myriem Bouzaher's introduction to the French version of The Name of the Rose, Postille al Nome della Rosa, Page 18 (1985)
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