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Foucault's pendulum / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eco, Umberto.
- Standardized Title:
- Pendolo di Foucault. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paranormal fiction.
- Vodou--Fiction.
- Vodou.
- Idolatry--Fiction.
- Idolatry.
- Religions--Fiction.
- Religions.
- Alchemists--Fiction.
- Alchemists.
- Thought and thinking.
- Foucault's pendulum.
- Foucault's pendulum--Fiction.
- Thought and thinking--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Occult fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 533 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First Ballantine Books U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1990.
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault.
- Summary:
- Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously natty colonel, who claimed to know of a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries.
- What they believe they are creating is 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.
- Contents:
- Keter
- Hokhmah
- Binah
- Hesed
- Gevurah
- Tiferet
- Nezah
- Hod
- Yesod
- Malkhut.
- Notes:
- First Ballantine Books U.S. edition: December 1990.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 200349
- ISBN:
- 0345368754
- 9780345368751
- OCLC:
- 22831142
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