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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco • William Weaver (Translator)
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- 2007
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- 623 PAGES
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Eco's stunning sophomore effort is a wild, complex conspiracy novel set in Milan. The narrator (an expert on the Knights Templar) and his co-workers in a vanity publishing house specializing in hermetics invent a stunningly contrived plot to appeal to their readers. It involves Templars, Rosicrucians, Cabalists, occultists, Freemasons, Jesuits, and more. As events progess, the book becomes a study in how fiction can influence reality. A verbose, philosophical, scholarly cross-genre predecessor to the Da Vinci Code, perfect for readers who feel up to an extremely rewarding challenge.
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