Foucault's pendulum / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eco, Umberto.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Pendolo di Foucault. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Vodou--Fiction.

Vodou.

Religions--Fiction.

Religions.

Idolatry--Fiction.

Idolatry.

Foucault's pendulum--Fiction.

Foucault's pendulum.

Alchemists--Fiction.

Alchemists.

Thought and thinking.

Thought and thinking--Fiction.

Occultism--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Occult fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

641 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First trade edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1989]

Summary:

Three editors conspire to devise a plan of their own about European history. As they feed all the information into their computer, they think it is a terrific joke--until people begin to mysteriously disappear.

Contents:

Keter

When the light of the infinite

Wee haue divers curious Clocks

Hokhmah

In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli

He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden

And begin by combining this name

Juda Leon se dio a permutaciones

Binah

Do not expect too much of the end of the world

Having come from the light and from the gods

In his right hand he held a golden trumpet

And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred

His sterility was infinite

Sub umbra alarum tuarum

Li frere, li mestre du Temple

He, if asked, would also confess to killing Our Lord

I will go and fetch you help from the Comte D'Anjou

He had been in the order only nine months

And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish

A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns

The order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment

Invisible center, the sovereign who must reawaken

The Graal ... is a weight so heavy

The knights wanted to face no further questions

Hesed

The analogy of opposites

Sauvez la faible Aischa

These mysterious initiates

All the traditions of the earth

One day, saying that he had known Pontius Pilate

There is a body that enfolds the whole of the world

Simply because they change and hide their names

And the famous confraternity of the Rosy Cross

The majority were in reality only Rosicrucians

Valentiniani per ambiguitates bilingues

The visions are white, blue, white, pale red

Gevurah

Beydelus, Demeyes, Adulex

I' mi son Lia.

Notes:

Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault.

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Eco, Umberto. Pendolo di Foucault. English. Foucault's pendulum.

ISBN:

0151327653

9780151327652

OCLC:

19554076

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