Focault's Pendulum
By Umberto EcoThree clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously natty colonel, who claimed to know of a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a long, lazy game - until the game starts taking over...
Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco—or indeed anyone—has ever devised
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- 656 pages
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- 0345418271
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About Umberto Eco
umberto eco was an italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. a professor of semiotics at the university of bologna, eco&rsqu Read More about Umberto Eco
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