num_pages: 641
description: Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously natty colonel, who claimed to know of a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a long, lazy game - until the game starts taking over...Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco—or indeed anyone—has ever devised.
language: English
title: Foucault's Pendulum
titlecomplete: Foucault's Pendulum
characters: Signor Casaubon, Hugues de Champagne, Dufy, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, Diotallevi, Justine Glinka, Belbo, Sergei Witte, Casaubon, Leo Fox, Péladan, de Maistre, Dr. Diotallevi, Theo Fox, Elie de Cyon, Abbé Barruel, Jacopo Belbo, Mary Lena, Gabriel Naudé, Aglie, Artois, Monsieur Rodin
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Philosophy, Italy, Italian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
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 (NYC)