by Umberto Eco · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099287155
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«Foucault's Pendulum» is Umberto Eco's mystery and occult novel, published by Vintage in paperback (656 pages, in English).
Three Milan editors, tired of reviewing occult manuscripts, use a computer to create a game linking esoteric data. What starts as a joke turns dangerous when the plot seems to come alive, disappearances and deaths follow, and they end up seeking the truth among conspiracies and occult rites.
Originally published in Italian as «Il pendolo di Foucault» (1988), this English edition contains William Weaver's translation.
For readers of Umberto Eco and historical mystery fiction, especially those who enjoyed «The Name of the Rose» and plots of conspiracies and esotericism.
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.
