Foucault’s Pendulum (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Umberto Eco
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s, with much of the action recounted in flashbacks
- Setting: Primarily Milan, Italy; Brazil; Paris
- Principal Characters: Casaubon (pow), Jacopo Belbo, Diotallevi, Senor Garamond, Lia, Count Aglie, Colonel Ardenti
- 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
Entertaining, erudite, enigmatic, and encyclopedic, Foucault ’s Pendulum (chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Books of 1989) proves a more than worthy successor to Italian semiotician Umberto Eco’s immensely—and surprisingly—popular first novel, Il nome della rosa (1980; The Name of the Rose, 1983). In both, Eco creates intricately woven narrative palimpsests, overlaying medieval material with contemporary preoccupations, including and especially the study of signs. Foucault’s Pendulum reads like the odd offspring of...
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