Foucault’s Pendulum (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Umberto Eco
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Mystery
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, 1980’s, Pregnancy, Conspiracies or conspirators, Colleges or universities, Italy or Italians, Research, Physics or physicists
- Locales: Paris, France, Brazil, Milan, Italy
FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM is not an easy read. Some readers may get lost in the attempt; many will have to go back over passages so as to keep clues clear. This is very much a philosophical mystery, maybe even a metaphysical mystery. Three editors from a publishing house in Milan, something of a vanity press, bored with rewriting the work of dilettantes, amuse themselves by fabricating a vast conspiracy. They are inspired by a certain Colonel Ardenti, who had come to them with what he thought was a coded message concerning a plot to control the Earth through the use of telluric energy,...
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