Foucault's pendulum

641 pages

English language

Published Feb. 6, 1989 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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978-0-15-132765-2
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An Enthralling Mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and aberrations, an adventure into the modern mind.

One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, an Adolphe Menjou mustache, wears maroon socks, and once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors (who have spent altogether too much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult by self-subsidizing poetasters and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They'll make a Plan of their own. But how? Randomly they throw in manuscript pages on hermetic thought. The Masters of the World, who live beneath the earth. The Comte de Saint-Germain, who lives forever. The secrets of the solar system contained in the measurements 


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Esotérisme romanesque

Par l'auteur du célÚbre Nom de la Rose, voici un roman d'aventures passionnant.

Umberto Eco aborde avec sa grande érudition les sociétés secrÚtes, l'occultisme et l'ésotérisme, et en arrive presque à faire croire au lecteur l'existence de ce complot mondial qui traverse l'Histoire. Se déroule une aventure fascinante, façon thriller, qui n'est pas sans rappeler le Da Vinci Code qu'il précéda et probablement inspira.

On le lira avec d'autant plus de profit qu'on porte un intĂ©rĂȘt Ă  ces thĂšmes et que l'on possĂšde des connaissances historiques, car les rĂ©fĂ©rences sont nombreuses, Ă  la limite de l'Ă©talage voire de la pĂ©danterie si l'on n'est pas versĂ© dans ces sujets.

Pour ma part j'ai beaucoup aimé et cela fait partie des livres qui m'ont le plus marqués. Et finalement, vu ce qu'il se passe aujourd'hui dans notre monde, si tout cela était vrai...?

Pidin tĂ€stĂ€ kovasti — sattumaako?!

Suuri salaliittomysteeri, jossa kaikki liittyy kaikkeen ja panoksena ei ole sen vĂ€hempÀÀ kuin maailman herruuden mahdollistava salaisuus! Kolme palvelukustantamon hirtehistĂ€ kustannustoimittajaa leikkii ironisesti kĂ€sikirjoitusten hörhötarinoilla, kunnes kaikki alkaa vaikuttaa liian todelta, ja kabbalasta ja temppeliritarien veljeskunnasta liikkeelle lĂ€htevÀÀn arvoitukseen kytkeytyy koko ajan uusia ulottuvuuksia. Mielenkiintoista muuten, vasta eilen illalla, luettuani taas sata sivua kirjaa, tulin tietokoneelle istumaan ja ensimmĂ€iseksi nĂ€in jonkun vĂ€ittĂ€vĂ€n saaneensa kĂ€siinsĂ€ aiemmin tuntemattomia temppeliherrain salaisuuksia sisĂ€ltĂ€vĂ€n vanhan kĂ€sinkirjoitetun muistikirjan — SATTUMAAKO?! Kolmannesvuosisata ilmestymisensĂ€ jĂ€lkeen Foucaultin heiluri on vain entistĂ€kin ajankohtaisempi, ja mikĂ€ parasta, sekĂ€ Ă€lykĂ€s ettĂ€ hauska.

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The main characters are collectors of knowledge about Templars and other related groups, so this novel also collects an unwieldy amount of knowledge around the plot, primarily in dialog. This diffuses (or defuses ) what tension there is, slowing the pace to a crawl.

The first 580 pages are told in flashback, our author hiding in a darkened museum and waiting for midnight. Chapters are short, with both dialog and investigation. Around page 400, they hatch the Plan - collect all of the knowledge they have into one grand scheme. Templars and Satanists, Rosicrucians and Jesuits, Masons and the Illuminati, Hollow Earth and Ultima Thule, and even Cthulhu makes an appearance. This scheme goes awry when an unlikely group demands more knowledge.

Too much dialog and too many ideas. Someone who read this copy before me tried highlighting and annotating, but gave up 60 pages in. When asked about Dan 


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