Abstract
This article aims to investigate the relationship between interdiction and transgression in Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose, aiming to demonstrate that this link is formed through dependence. The paper also seeks to analyze curiosity as one of the channels through which transgression manifests itself in the face of the bans imposed on Eco's fiction, not as a way of denying them, but of overcoming them by enhancing them. It is understood that curiosity as a transgression is the result of a first interdiction, that of laughter, and it is evaluated as both curiositas and studiositas. This expression is considered, also, as excess, an excess that leads to death and destruction, highlighting the danger to the homogeneous world. The theoretical basis of this article is mainly composed of the works of Georges Bataille, with the support of Alberto Manguel and Georges Minois.
Keywords:
Novel; interdiction; transgression; excess; curiosity