The Construction Of Rhizome Labyrinth

The twining characteristics of multi-entrances and multi-exits in rhizome constitute a correlative and illusory structure. The labyrinth creates a confusing space, disorienting those in trials of searching the exits. Imagine what situation comes into being when the rhizome encounters the labyrinth. The famous Italian writer Umberto Eco attempts to build the magical situation——the rhizome labyrinths in his novels.Umberto Eco has the reputation for his research in semiotics. Symbols are permeated in his novels evidently and without any cover. The readers can feel the free utilizations of symbols in his novels. The symbols of various forms are indispensable components to build a labyrinth. Nevertheless, Eco is dissatisfied and infuses the labyrinth with narrative elements and listing ideas to construct a special Eco form novel labyrinth. The labyrinth ceases to be merely filled with code and decode of symbols, like those in the novels of Dan Brown, refuses to research the labyrinths from perspectives of pure conspiracy theory and construction, like Jorge Luis Borges, and rejects to focus on single character, fabricating maze suspense according to character thoughts, like Alain Robbe-Grillet. Umberto Eco fuses these elements and collects various knowledges as a whole to construct a rhizome labyrinth, filled with fantasy and dimensions and different from other novelists. The Eco form labyrinth characterizes scholarilization and popularization, acting as the main researching theme in this paper. The labyrinth will be investigated and decoded from perspectives of open reading and abduction to find the exits.The present work emphasizes intensive reading of the texts and combines it with semiotics theory and novel aesthetic characters. A comparison is presented between this paper and that of outstanding writers skilled at labyrinth novels to interpret Eco's novels in order to avoid the dual fragment of text interpretation and theoretical explanations. Another meaningful goal is expecting more readers to dig information about Eco, a great novelist beyond his famous identities of semiologist and culture researcher.