Adam's review
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Adam's review
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Adam's review
rating:
recommended for: academics
This is one for the intellectually stimulated reader, one whose imagination is steeped in concepts and the intrigue of conspiracy and all the unseen chess moves of historical fact/myth/legend.
it is a rich read. Umberto, Professor of Semiotics, influenced by James Joyce, creates a story about three man in a publishing company whose task it is to compile crackpot manuscripts for a collection on sects, conspiracies and secret societies. Either from boredom, or the love of putting creative pieces together, the three feed the manuscripts into a computer which creates a"Plan" that ties them all together, and jokingly, but not without attracting the attention of some ever-present man: St. Germaine (who is as legend has it the oldest man alive, the classiest and the most patient of sorts).
The story is a long conversation at parts where the most remarkable aspects are the interpretative disagreements about historical fact and myth.
When DAVinci Code came out, i wasn't surp...more
it is a rich read. Umberto, Professor of Semiotics, influenced by James Joyce, creates a story about three man in a publishing company whose task it is to compile crackpot manuscripts for a collection on sects, conspiracies and secret societies. Either from boredom, or the love of putting creative pieces together, the three feed the manuscripts into a computer which creates a"Plan" that ties them all together, and jokingly, but not without attracting the attention of some ever-present man: St. Germaine (who is as legend has it the oldest man alive, the classiest and the most patient of sorts).
The story is a long conversation at parts where the most remarkable aspects are the interpretative disagreements about historical fact and myth.
When DAVinci Code came out, i wasn't surp...more
