Foucault Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: For general readers, The Foucault Pendulum might be a harder book to read than The Name of the Rose. It has too many parts that resemble papers on mathematics, physics, theology, history, political science, even chronology. However, any non-expert reader can approach it with a playful attitude to uncover many fragments of Umberto Eco’s "forged history." Eco is indeed skilled at lying, fabricating many materials that are almost indistinguishable from the "history/novel," waiting for readers who enjoy archaeology to expose or unravel them. The Foucault Pendulum is just such a book that helps readers a great deal—if Umberto Eco is a cunning scholar, then his greatest joke is to let knowledge display such captivating charm, inspiring awe and yet forcing one to doubt under what rational control knowledge might transform into an empty promise.