Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

• ISBN10: 0151327653
• ISBN13: 9780151327652
• Publish Date: 15 November 1989 (first published 16 October 1989)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 April 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Imprint: Thomson Learning
• Edition: Trade ed.
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 641
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

Foucault’s Pendulum may not be for everyone and I will try not to give away any of the story. Personally, I really enjoyed the way it was written. I went into the book knowing it was about Secret Societies and conspiracy theories, but as I kept reading the book, I started to think it was real. I had to snap myself out of this thought process. The story follows a group of publishers who started deconstructing and analysing what they knew about the Templers, eventually they were drawing connections to other secret societies like the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons & the Jesuits. I don’t know how much of the information was real, but this book was written in such a way that you may get sucked in. It definitely isn’t a book for everyone, it is very content heavy, but well worth the read if you have any interest in the topic.