In the separately-published Postscript to this work, this book's author cites his own Opera aperta in a section on "constructing the reader" and claims "I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it".  One character in this work gets a new pair of glasses from the glazier Nicholas and his discussions of herbalism are critiqued in the fake translator's note which precedes the story of this novel. In this work, Berengar is found with a black tongue, a result of poison being applied to a laughter-sanctioning tome hidden in the finis Africae. Both t
In the separately-published Postscript to this work, this book's author cites his own Opera aperta in a section on "constructing the reader" and claims "I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it".  One character in this work gets a new pair of glasses from the glazier Nicholas and his discussions of herbalism are critiqued in the fake translator's note which precedes the story of this novel. In this work, Berengar is found with a black tongue, a result of poison being applied to a laughter-sanctioning tome hidden in the finis Africae. Both the Aedificum and the second volume of Aristotle's Poetics are destroyed by the blind librarian Jorge of Burgos in, for 10 points, this novel in which Adso of Melk helps William of Baskerville investigate a series of murders in a medieval monastery, by Umberto Eco.
In the separately-published Postscript to this work, this book's author cites his own Opera aperta in a section on "constructing the reader" and claims "I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it".  
The Name of the {Rose} (or {Il nome della rosa})