description: Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.  
language: English
title: Foucault's Pendulum
titlecomplete: Foucault's Pendulum
characters: Jacopo Belbo, Signor Casaubon, Artois, Sergei Witte, Belbo, Mary Lena, Hugues de Champagne, Monsieur Rodin, Gabriel Naudé, Aglie, Péladan, Theo Fox, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, de Maistre, Abbé Barruel, Diotallevi, Dufy, Leo Fox, Casaubon, Justine Glinka, Dr. Diotallevi, Elie de Cyon
genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 68507
places: Italy, Milan, Lombardy
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: William Weaver, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Premio Bancarella, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Ars Translationis
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich