Foucault's pendulum
(Book)
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Published:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc:
641 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Status:
New London Adult Fiction
FIC
Description
A literary prank leads to deadly danger in this “endlessly diverting” intellectual thriller by the author of The Name of the Rose (Time).
Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum.
But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real. When occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Umberto Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.
"An intellectual adventure story…sensational, thrilling, and packed with arcana."—The Washington Post Book World
Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum.
But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real. When occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Umberto Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.
"An intellectual adventure story…sensational, thrilling, and packed with arcana."—The Washington Post Book World
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0151327653
Notes
General Note
Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault.
General Note
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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APA Citation (style guide)
Eco, U. (1989). Foucault's pendulum. 1st trade ed. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eco, Umberto. 1989. Foucault's Pendulum. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eco, Umberto, Foucault's Pendulum. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum. 1st trade ed. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
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