Umberta Eco "Imię róży" w szkolnej lekturze licealisty (jako tekst i kontekst kulturowy)
"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco as High School Required Reading (text and contex seen culturally)

Summary/Abstract: The articleisdevoted to a methodical analysis of The Name of the Rose for the first and thefourthgrade (fifth in technical secondary school) of secondary school. The novel by Ecofitswell with the specific implementation guidelines for literary and cultural education ATboth levels of reading. It gives the opportunity to use many valuable cultural texts (includingphilosophical and literary ones) within the interpretative function. The novel is multithematic.It presents both the cultural past of the Middle Ages and the nature of man (hisstrength and weaknesses in discovering the truth about the world). The work consists of twoparts. In the first part, the author propos es selected fragments of the novel (oritswhole) forreading. They serve to deep en the knowledge about the culture of the Middle Ages, also in thecontext of going beyond the stereotypical image of this era as a darktime. That is why specialattention is paid to the matter of the novel’s role of laughter in the Middle Ages. In the secondpart of the article, the analysis focuses, among others, on playing with the literary text andgenre convention (The Name of the Rose as a postmodern novel). The series of les sons alsoputs forward the topic of becoming inspired by the works of J. Borges and literary tradition as a living component of contemporary culture.

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