Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

As brilliant and quirky as The Name of the Rose, as mischievous and wide-ranging . . . A virtuoso performance. San Francisco Chronicle
A literary joke plunges its creators into mortal danger in this captivating intellectual thriller by celebrated author Umberto Eco.
A Colonel Ardenti starts it all: He tells three editors that he has discovered a coded message about a centuries-old Knights Templar plan to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors, bored with rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult and amused by his fantastic claims, decide to cook up a Plan of their own. Into their computer they feed manuscript pages on Satanic initiation rites, Rosicrucianism, the measurements of the Great Pyramid and out comes a map indicating a point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled, a point located at Foucault s Pendulum in Paris. A terrific joke, they think. Until people begin to disappear mysteriously, starting with the colonel . . .
An encyclopedic detective story about a search for the center of an ancient, still-living conspiracy of men who seek not merely power over the earth but the power of the earth itself . . . An intellectual triumph. Anthony Burgess, The New York Times Book Review

UMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Milan.

La obra de Umberto Eco (1932-2016) ha sido fundamental para entender la historia del siglo XX y de nuestros dias. Durante mucho tiempo se dedico a la ensenanza en la universidad, y sus ensayos son textos de consulta obligada en las universidades de todo el mundo. Entre sus ensayos mas importantes publicados en castellano figuran: Obra abierta, Apocalipticos e integrados, La estructura ausente, Tratado de semiotica general, Lector in fabula, Semiotica y filosofia del lenguaje, Los limites de la interpretacion, Las poeticas de Joyce, Segundo diario minimo, El superhombre de masas, Seis paseos por los bosques narrativos, Arte y belleza en la estetica medieval, Sobre literatura, Historia de la belleza, Historia de la fealdad, A paso de cangrejo, Decir casi lo mismo, Confesiones de un joven novelista y Construir al enemigo.

Hace mas de treinta anos hizo su entrada triunfal en el mundo de la ficcion con El nombre de la rosa, una novela que lo convirtio en un autor apreciado no solo por la critica, sino tambien por el gran publico. A este primer exito siguieron El pendulo de Foucault, La isla del dia de antes, Baudolino, La misteriosa llama de la reina Loana, El cementerio de Praga y Numero Cero.

De la estupidez a la locura es la obra postuma de Umberto Eco, que el autor entrego a imprenta pocos dias antes de morir, el 19 de febrero de 2016.

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ISBN 13	9780151327652
ISBN 10	0151327653
Title	Foucault's Pendulum
Author	Umberto Eco
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cengage Learning EMEA
Year published	1989-11-15
Number of pages	641
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