Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's Pendulum

by UmbertoEco (Author)

Synopsis

"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.

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 641
Edition: Trade ed.
Publisher: Thomson Learning
Published: 15 Nov 1989

ISBN 10: 0151327653
ISBN 13: 9780151327652

Author Bio
UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la L gion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.