by Umberto Eco · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246417514
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«Le Pendule de Foucault» is the novel by Umberto Eco published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback, 660 pages, in French.
In 1984, Casaubon hides in the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris. With two friends from a Milanese publishing house, he playfully devised a planetary conspiracy with esoteric texts and secret societies; the invention ends up taking on a life of its own and drags the plot through Europe, Africa and Brazil in an erudite thriller about history, science and religion.
The French translation is by Jean-Noël Schifano. The work was originally published in Italian as Il pendolo di Foucault. Grasset & Fasquelle published this edition in 1990.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy secret societies, esoteric mysteries and Western history.
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.
