El péndulo de Foucault

umberto eco

Tres intelectuales que trabajan en una editorial de Milán establecen contacto con autores interesados en las ciencias ocultas, las sociedades secretas y las conjuras cósmicas. En un primer momento dicha relación se mantiene estrictamente profesional, pero poco a poco van estrechándose los lazos. Editores y autores inventan juntos, por puro juego, un complejo «plan», urdido supuestamente por los templarios siete siglos atrás. Pero alguien toma demasiado en serio el juego, y todos ellos se verán inmersos en una inquietante pesadilla.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionmysteryliteratureclassicsitalian literaturethrillerphilosophyitalynovels

820 pages, Paperback

First published October 4,1988

Literary awards

pen translation prize, premio bancarella, ars translationis,

Places

italy, milan lombardy,

This edition

Format: 820 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2000 by Random House Mondadori
ISBN: 9788499891309
ASIN: 8499891306
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Jacopo Belbo

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Diotallevi

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Casaubon

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Signor Casaubon

The narrator. He had been a student in 1970s Milan, working on a thesis on the history of the Knights Templar while taking in the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activities of the students around him....
Belbo

An editor in a publishing house....
Dr. Diotallevi

A cabalist....

About the author

umberto eco

Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco Hayez) appearing 27 January 2016. At the time of his death, he was an Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, where he taught for much of his life. In the 21st century, he has continued to gain recognition for his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", where Eco lists fourteen general properties he believes comprise fascist ideologies.