by Umberto Eco · Destino CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423317738
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«El péndulo de Foucault» is the novel by Umberto Eco, published by Destino CAT in paperback (875 pages, in Catalan).
Three editors in Milan, bored with their routine, invent the Plan, a false conspiracy connecting the Templars with occult sects from all eras. The resulting map points to the spot in Paris where Foucault's pendulum stands, supposedly capable of dominating the Earth; when the esoteric take it seriously, the game becomes real.
The Catalan edition, published in 1989, belongs to the L'Ancora collection of the Destino CAT imprint in Barcelona.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in esoteric mysteries and elaborate intellectual conspiracies.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
