num_pages: 641
description: "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating 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.From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Foucault's Pendulum
titlecomplete: Foucault's Pendulum
characters: de Maistre, Péladan, Diotallevi, Mary Lena, Dr. Diotallevi, Abbé Barruel, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, Casaubon, Signor Casaubon, Theo Fox, Elie de Cyon, Aglie, Monsieur Rodin, Artois, Jacopo Belbo, Justine Glinka, Dufy, Gabriel Naudé, Hugues de Champagne, Leo Fox, Belbo, Sergei Witte
genres: Fiction, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 68525
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: Ballantine Books