The Hermeneutical Reception of the Character of Jorge de Burgos in Umberto Eco’s Novel The Name of the Rose
This article analyses the modalities of Umberto Eco’s intertextual adoption of J. L. Borges’ ‘fictional person’ and the specific literary metaphors Borges developed and used in his short stories when building the hermeneutical reception of the character of Jorge de Burgos, the villain of Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose. While the critical literature …
