by Umberto Eco · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330317009
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«Foucault's Pendulum» is the mystery novel by Umberto Eco, published by Picador in paperback (656 pages, in English).
In 1970s Milan, Casaubon studies the Knights Templar and befriends the editors Belbo and Diotallevi. A mysterious author claims the Templars are plotting a centuries-old revenge, and the three invent a «Plan» with conspiracy theories and occult knowledge. The plot combines erudition, irony, and literary references.
Work originally published in Italian as «Il pendolo di Foucault» (1988); this English edition came out in 1997.
For readers of historical mystery and conspiracy novels, with an interest in esotericism and secret societies.
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.
