(urth) Rose the Graced not Rose the Chaste

[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 03:02 24/06/2008, Matt wrote:
>I once started theorizing about references to The Name of the Rose 
>in The Book of the New Sun, but I'm afraid the parallels between the 
>two books are just (beautiful) coincidences. The Shadow of the 
>Torturer appeared in 1980, the same year that The Name of the Rose 
>appeared in Italian. The English edition didn't appear until 1983.
>
>I guess great minds really do think alike.


Eco and Wolfe were born only eight months apart -- you can imagine 
them both simultaneously poring excitedly over their newly-acquired 
translated Borges, in their respective university rooms; one at Texas 
A&M, the other in Turin. (Well, I can.)

Mo


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