First the novel, then a movie, now the series, which starts at the streaming provider of Sky: Umberto Ecos “the Name of The Rose” seems to be timeless. And also represents a Trend: literature as a series.
26 million Euro cost of production, eight parts, nearly seven-hour game duration, a number of international Stars, a sumptuous interior and a couple of female main characters more than in the novel and the movie. “The Name of the Rose” as the series arrived in the 21st century. Century – that could work. The German-Italian Co-production is certainly one of the most spectacular series of reboots in this, not just a series of poor months.
Diverse and complex novel construct: the novel “the Name of The Rose”
According to “Game of Thrones”, which deals with history and myths, right free, now, serial the middle ages, food in its purest form. In 1980, the novel of the Italian semiotics Professor in Italy appeared, it Ecos debut was as a writer and became a world success.
The book offered many things: Crime and detective story, history, and moral paintings, a literary puzzle, and a cornucopia of characters and References of all kinds. Also, The Name of the Rose was, of course, and for some readers, first of all, a gripping novel about the history of the Church and religious wars, through education and Religion.
John Turturro (left) has taken over in the series remake, the role of William of Baskerville
Two years after the original edition of the novel appeared in 1982 in Germany, the cinema audience had to wait four more years, Then no less than James Bond actor Sean Connery came to the big screen and played the same William of Baskerville, the Umberto Eco a few years earlier, in his complex literary detective game was sent.
Ecos book: novel about the history of the Church, packaged as a Thriller
Reminder: The Franciscan William of Baskerville in the beginning of the 14. Century in a Benedictine Abbey, in the Ligurian hills, appointed to teach in the religious war between the various schools of the Christian Church – the popes resided for some time in the French city of Avignon. Since it life in a contemplative monastery, just a mysterious death case has been (more to follow) gets William (and his assistant, the young Adson of Melk) is a further task.
In the theatrical version of the 1986 Sean Connery is William of Baskerville, played
As a distant ancestor of Sherlock Holmes (the Name “Baskerville” was not selected by Eco at random) must William to spend his intellectual skills and his instinct to bring light into the darkness of the mysterious happenings in the monastery. A main role of a mysterious, in the Abbey like a treasure guarded book that brings its readers the knowledge, but also death. This was the “Second book of poetics” by Aristotle, which spreads over the Humor and the Laugh – a danger to many of the strict Church people.
Umberto Eco was a master of the literary encryption
Eco required for its fabric 650 pages and you could read the book at the time, in a variety of ways. Who wanted to, was allowed to pursue the numerous more or less hidden Clues of the semiotics Professor and in a cosmos of history, science and doctrine of faith, and lose. You could weglesen the book but also in a slip, as an exciting Detective and history story.
Digital medieval: The series was created, in contrast to the theatrical version, in the digital age
“The Name of the Rose” also works as a series
The series, which is now at 24. May starts the streaming provider Sky Germany (in Italy it was aired already), the movie closer than the book, even if you strands, of course, in the development of some of the narrative more time than the movie. The series is entertaining, tasteful and conventionally staged, magnificently, the cast list can be seen – in a historical series, with all the trimmings: Produced in Italy, in the English language for the world market turned.
Of the Baskervilles the books and studied Scriptures in the monastery
The series “the Name of The Rose” also represents a Trend. In the meantime, unmanageable series-offer of literature may now be interested to have universal appeal. Literature as a series may, but need not work. In individual cases, it always comes down to the aesthetic and dramaturgical quality.
From Frank Schätzing to Gabriel García Márquez
This is the serial implementation of the Italian best-selling book “My brilliant friend” (recently at Magenta TV available) so that will have to be in “The swarm” based on the Bestseller by Frank Schätzing so, which is currently being filmed for the ZDF. And that will be when Netflix announced the series adaptation of “100 years of solitude,” according to Gabriel García Márquez so. More novels are currently being filmed or been filmed are: “among people” (after July Altes Land” (Debbie Hansen) or “In 80 days around the world” after the Jules Verne classic toe), “. Series and literature fans can look forward to.
Thriller to Chill: “the Name of The Rose” as a series
But with all due joy of the new literature series, one should not overlook the fact that the series is not the continuation of literature by other means. Some Fans put forward the Thesis that the series lead to the Fort, which had once begun to the writer, that the series of Balzac and Tolstoy for the 21st century. Century be – this Thesis can hardly keep up. What is right: Epic-Telling, Developing complex characters, a nested narrative – all of the series can also.
Different Culture Techniques
But with the eyes of the views of a matte and well-portioned series episodes to consume, this is a completely different cultural technique, which requires very different brain activities. Umberto Eco would have been able to explain this difference is probably quite wonderful.
Elke Walt helm, Executive Vice President of Content at Sky Deutschland, puts it this way: “With ‘the Name of The Rose’ we offer our customers one of the most well-known Content Brands in a fascinating new edition.” Aristotle would have turned in his grave.