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An Enthralling Mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and aberrations, an adventure into the modern mind.
One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks, and once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.
The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidizing poetasters and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how?
Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who lives forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements of the Great Pyramid. The Satanic initiation rites of the Knights of the Temple, Assassins, Rosicrucians, Brazilian voodoo. They feed all of this into their computer, which is named Abulafia (Abu for short), after the medieval Jewish cabalist.
A terrific joke, they think - until people begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one, starting with Colonel Ardenti.
A superb entertainment by the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Verschwo rung, Templerorden ; SWD-ID: 41340887, Belletristische Darstellung, Templars, semiotics, medieval history, Fiction, Voodooism, Foucault's pendulum, Thought and thinking, Religions, Alchemists, Idolatry, Occultism, Psychological fiction, Occult fiction, Vodou, Superstition, Alchemy, French literature, Mythe, Templiers, Occultisme, Romans, Pendule de Foucault, Roman italien, Ordinateurs, Moyen Age, Societes secretes, Mystery fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, psychological, New York Times reviewed, Historische romans (genre), Italian literature, 18.29 Italian literature, Paranormal fiction, Vaudou, Romans, nouvelles, Idolâtrie, Alchimistes, Pensée, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fictionPeople
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El Pendulo De Foucault (Umberto Ec0)
February 28, 2005, Lumen Editorial
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Le Pendule De Foucault
April 1, 1992, Livre de Poche
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Le Pendule de Foucault
February 28, 1990, Bernard Grasset
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Foucault's pendulum
1989, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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"That was when I saw the pendulum."
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Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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Il pendolo di Foucault è il secondo romanzo dello scrittore italiano Umberto Eco. Pubblicato nel 1988 dalla casa editrice Bompiani (con cui Eco aveva già un pluridecennale rapporto), è ambientato negli anni della vita dello scrittore, fino ai primi anni ottanta. Il pendolo di Foucault è suddiviso in dieci segmenti che rappresentano le dieci Sephirot. Il romanzo è ricco di citazioni esoteriche, dalla Cabala all'alchimia e alla teoria del complotto, così tante che il critico letterario e romanziere Anthony Burgess ha suggerito che sarebbe stato utile un indice.
Extraordinary narrative by Italian semiotician and professor Umberto Eco, who guides us through the darkest corners of history.
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