This reflects one component of postmodernism, i.e., the notion that all texts refer to other texts, rather than to external physical world. In The PostScript to the Name of the Rose, published in 1984, one year after the English translation of Rose appeared, Eco tells us that “books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told" (20). Secondly, there are many intertextual references to other works of fiction, including works by Voltaire, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jorge Luis Borges. Firstly, the novel’s plot revolves around a medieval library that contains forbidden books including the only surviving copy of Aristotle’s second volume of Poetics. This kind of self-referentiality is also present in Umberto’s Eco first novel, The Name of the Rose, which is a book about books. In “The Opposite” episode of the fifth season of Seinfeld, Kramer appears on Regis and Kathy Lee to promote his new coffee table book which is inevitably about coffee tables. Evidence of Holmes in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
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