Foucault's Pendulum | Characters
Often compared to Sam Spade, Casaubon is an intellectually gifted and perennially curious everyman. Although the details of his personal life — his family background, affairs with Amparo and Lia, and even the birth of his and Lia's son — sometimes seem little more than digressions, Casaubon is the character who necessarily shapes the reader's perspective on the events and characters of the novel. As a character whose motives are never in question and as the one who manages to survive, he makes a trustworthy, if not wholly reliable, narrator.
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