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V knize pronikáme k podstatě života z pařížského technického muzea, v němž Foucaultovo kyvadlo, měděná koule zavěšená na 54 m dlouhém laně, svým pohybem podává důkaz o točení Země i neměnnosti bodu, z něhož vše vychází a do něhož se vše vrací, střed Světa, Plánu i věcí. Kyvadlo má přispět k rozluštění Plánu řídícího svět, esoterické vize prostupující novou metafyzikou i te...more
Published 2009 by Český klub (first published 1988)
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Feb 01, 2008Will rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Imagine three sarcastic, over-educated editors who work at a vanity publisher. Owing to their occupation, they naturally end up reading an abundance of books about ridiculously grand conspiracy theories and occult societies - the Freemasons, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati (Bavarian and otherwise), and so on. So they start to play a sort of free-association game: Let's connect all these things, using the same half-mad logic as the authors of these books, into one grand design. Thu...more
Feb 08, 2009This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For rated it it was ok · review of another edition
This book consists of predominantly two things: (1) Endless dialogue by mentally unbalanced paranoid conspiracy theorists; (2) Endless dialogue by scholars who study mentally unbalanced paranoid conspiracy theorists. This is not a bad book, but its not an easy read, and not really a particularly enjoyable one. My enjoyment, or lack thereof, was tempered by the fact that I was apparently trying to read one story, but the author was trying to tell a different one. Put another way, I was trying to...more
Feb 23, 2011Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: eco, reviews-5-stars, reviews, read-2013, read-2009, exert-yourself
PLAYFUL:
An Opening Gambol
While I first read this novel in 2009, I bought a second-hand copy in May, 2013 for $7, which I thought was a bargain price for the degree of pleasure it's given me.
Only when I was half way through did I notice a sheet of white paper slipped into the last pages.
It shows four hand-drawn circles, each of which contains the name of a city and a number.
If the numbers represent years, they cover 21 years. If you add 2 and 1, you get the number 3. If you examine the gaps betw...more
An Opening Gambol
While I first read this novel in 2009, I bought a second-hand copy in May, 2013 for $7, which I thought was a bargain price for the degree of pleasure it's given me.
Only when I was half way through did I notice a sheet of white paper slipped into the last pages.
It shows four hand-drawn circles, each of which contains the name of a city and a number.
If the numbers represent years, they cover 21 years. If you add 2 and 1, you get the number 3. If you examine the gaps betw...more
Jun 21, 2017Steven Godin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
When it comes to novels the size of bricks I have to admit to being a bit of a lightweight, only reading a handful of books over 600 pages long, and always enter with some trepidation. Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is not quite brick big, but then it doesn't look like it's been on a diet either.
In terms of sheer scope and passionate ambition this really is something, and it felt like a history lesson and a novel combined, so kudos there.
This is a complex piece of writing that does require hard work...more
Dec 27, 2011Traveller rated it really liked it · review of another editionIn terms of sheer scope and passionate ambition this really is something, and it felt like a history lesson and a novel combined, so kudos there.
This is a complex piece of writing that does require hard work...more
Shelves: 1001-books, four-and-a-half-stars, translated
Descartes said: Cogito, ergo sum.
Eco says: I seek meaning, therefore I am human.
It's very hard to succinctly describe exactly what this novel is. From looking at the plot description, you may be forgiven for assuming that it is a book like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, or Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. There is an overlap in the fact that all three books deal with conspiracies that revolve around the mystical and mythical order of the Knight's Templ...more
Shelves: reading-the-world, 20th-century, on-my-own, 1001-done, italy, favourites, thriller-crime, sabado
Let's be clear: Eco is a titan. This opus embarks the reader in a story with multiple bends, one is carried away by the incredible erudition of the author, by the obvious mastery of his art .... Rare are the books that really raise the level of the reader. Eco does it every time. A Landmark!
The Pendulum of Foucault is a book that exceeds me. It is full of references, abstruse authors, outdated ideologies, strange rites. Every time I will remember it, I will get out of it. It is a reminder of the...more
Nov 30, 2012Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another editionThe Pendulum of Foucault is a book that exceeds me. It is full of references, abstruse authors, outdated ideologies, strange rites. Every time I will remember it, I will get out of it. It is a reminder of the...more
Shelves: italian, historical, fiction, mystery, literature, 20th-century
Il pendolo di Foucault = Foucault’s pendulum, Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, and an English translation by William Weaver appeared a year later. Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The satirical novel is full of esoteric references to Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory—so many, that critic and novelist Anthony Burges...more
Jun 13, 2011Jan-MaatFoucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, and an English translation by William Weaver appeared a year later. Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The satirical novel is full of esoteric references to Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory—so many, that critic and novelist Anthony Burges...more
added it · review of another edition Shelves: italy, read-in-translation, 20th-century, novel
This is a novel that contrasts the acceptance, and delight, in the world as it is with the consequences of the desire to read in meanings to everything that we see about us.
In Eco's earlier book,The Name of the Rose, the detective mystery was parodied and this is taken one step further in this novel. The Detective mystery assumes that there is a mystery that can be solved. It invites investigation. In this novel the constant working deeper into mysteries produces only more obscurity ('the penis...more
Nov 20, 2013Jaidee rated it liked it · review of another editionIn Eco's earlier book,The Name of the Rose, the detective mystery was parodied and this is taken one step further in this novel. The Detective mystery assumes that there is a mystery that can be solved. It invites investigation. In this novel the constant working deeper into mysteries produces only more obscurity ('the penis...more
Recommended to Jaidee by: my partner and some dear friends
3 'the last of the pentalogy of puzzlement and perseverance' stars !!!
A very difficult book to both rate and review. As I read this book I reflected on four other books that have been considered great by so many of my friends and in particular, my darling partner.
These five books to me were seeds and shadows of greatness but I felt were so heavily flawed that they became only fair to average good reads for me.
These books are:
1. 1Q84 (2.5 stars)
2.Cloud Atlas (3 stars)
3. A Fine Balance (3 stars)
4....more
Aug 31, 2008Ben Babcock rated it it was amazing · review of another editionA very difficult book to both rate and review. As I read this book I reflected on four other books that have been considered great by so many of my friends and in particular, my darling partner.
These five books to me were seeds and shadows of greatness but I felt were so heavily flawed that they became only fair to average good reads for me.
These books are:
1. 1Q84 (2.5 stars)
2.Cloud Atlas (3 stars)
3. A Fine Balance (3 stars)
4....more
Shelves: own, didactic-fiction, historical-fiction, translated, 2009-read, religion-fiction, 2009-best10, favourites, literary-pretentious
I read a lot, and the people around me are used to seeing a new book in my hand every day or couple of days. Naturally, they ask me what I'm reading, usually in a way that implies I should divulge more than just the title and the author, which are plainly visible on the cover. How do I respond when I'm reading something so sublime and transcendental as Foucault's Pendulum? It defies ordinary description of plot, because Umberto Eco has again unified his narrative with his themes and characters t...more
May 13, 2007Nathan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: fiction
The best book I have ever read. It is the creepiest, deepest, and most brilliantly executed piece of literature. Umberto Eco is a genius, and if I could have a conversation with anyone, it would be him.
The book, however, is very difficult to read. The language is dense, and in the first 200 pages, it beats you over the head with history of the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians. All of this history is necessary to make the second half cause you to shit your pants. It's basically about these gu...more
The book, however, is very difficult to read. The language is dense, and in the first 200 pages, it beats you over the head with history of the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians. All of this history is necessary to make the second half cause you to shit your pants. It's basically about these gu...more
Aug 18, 2018Manuel Antão rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
The Revelation of the Identical:'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco
'You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.'
In 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco
I've always been a keen follower of Prof. Eco's books, both literary and academic. If there's one question I would like to ask him is this:
'What about the questi...more
The Revelation of the Identical:'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco
'You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.'
In 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco
I've always been a keen follower of Prof. Eco's books, both literary and academic. If there's one question I would like to ask him is this:
'What about the questi...more
Apr 09, 2008Gerard rated it did not like it · review of another edition
One of those books where the author tediously says next to nothing, and all the semi-litterati can't figure out what he's trying to say, so they conclude he must be brilliant. A wasted effort by an otherwise talented (so I hear) author, and that portion of the gullible public that assumes that something profound is being said so long as they can't understand it.
Nov 25, 2013Dolors rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: read-in-2013
“ “Us two? All three of us are in this. If we don’t come out honorably, we’ll all look silly.”
“Silly to whom?”
“Why, to history. Before the tribunal of Truth.”
“Quid est veritas?” Belbo asked.
“Us,” I said.” ” (p.435)
Truth? What is truth? Truth is relative. Or isn’t it?
The fact that Umberto Eco portrays one of his characters quoting Pontius Pilate’s assertion that truth is hard to ascertain with some sort of consistent resonance of a Nietzschian Superman who has passed “beyond good and evil” i...more
Mar 06, 2007Andy rated it it was ok · review of another edition“Silly to whom?”
“Why, to history. Before the tribunal of Truth.”
“Quid est veritas?” Belbo asked.
“Us,” I said.” ” (p.435)
Truth? What is truth? Truth is relative. Or isn’t it?
The fact that Umberto Eco portrays one of his characters quoting Pontius Pilate’s assertion that truth is hard to ascertain with some sort of consistent resonance of a Nietzschian Superman who has passed “beyond good and evil” i...more
Recommends it for: Very patient Eco fans (is there any other kind?)
This book is a conundrum to me. I liked the story of three book editors accidentally enmeshing themselves in the world of conspiracy theory. I liked the philosophical discussion of why we believe in things like Great Global Conspiracies. I even thought some of the history was interesting.
But LORD, did Eco need an editor. In parts of this book, the signal-to-noise ratio is distressingly low as Eco's talking heads sit and discuss the intricacies of Templar and Rosicrucian history for page after p...more
Mar 25, 2013Bradley rated it it was amazing · review of another editionBut LORD, did Eco need an editor. In parts of this book, the signal-to-noise ratio is distressingly low as Eco's talking heads sit and discuss the intricacies of Templar and Rosicrucian history for page after p...more
Shelves: horror, satire, self-help, reality-bending, fanboy-goes-squee, fantasy, traditional-fiction, history, metaphysics, mystery
The best and the worst thing I can say about this novel is that it's a difficult read. Sure, the author is Italian, but that doesn't automatically make it difficult, only a a novel that I've read out of it's normal language. No, the novel isn't even difficult in the traditional sense, where the sentence structure is hard to follow and there might be four hundred commas per dozen pages. The writing is quite nice. No, the novel is difficult because it requires the reader to read and understand a w...more
Jul 11, 2008Terry rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I think it could be validly opined that all of Umberto Eco’s novels primarily exist to show off how much he knows. They are all jam-packed with esoteric knowledge from such specialized and varied sources that one wonders how a single human being managed to fit them all into his head, let alone turn them into fodder for a story. In this sense Eco seems much like his own creation of Casaubon from this novel, “the Marlowe of culture”: one able to sift through the vast repository of arcane and seemi...more
Sep 11, 2018Mattia Ravasi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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A masterpiece, a must-read, dirò di più, a great novel.
At once an ecyclopedic study of human stupidity, a flight of fancy of historical proportions, and a seven-hundred-page praise of a rather pretty Piemonte hill. Traps you into the same mechanisms that doom its characters, but it's gentle in showing you the trap's functioning, and sympathetic in sharing your pain.
Not for kids who find it challenging to sit still through fifty-minute lectures.
A masterpiece, a must-read, dirò di più, a great novel.
At once an ecyclopedic study of human stupidity, a flight of fancy of historical proportions, and a seven-hundred-page praise of a rather pretty Piemonte hill. Traps you into the same mechanisms that doom its characters, but it's gentle in showing you the trap's functioning, and sympathetic in sharing your pain.
Not for kids who find it challenging to sit still through fifty-minute lectures.
Dec 14, 2008J.I. added it · review of another edition
Between his home and his summer home, Umberto Eco has some 50,000 books to his name. I believe that he has read every one of them, some probably twice. Which is to say that this is an erudite novel. A warning to the reader: you will be wading into lists of reference materials. You are about to be presented with conversations that run for pages that are dedicated solely to the minutiae of conspiracies, most about the Templars. I warned you.
But this book is not just about secret societies and the...more
But this book is not just about secret societies and the...more
Apr 02, 2018Sud666 rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Before we delve too much into this book I have to give this caveat- this book is most certainly not for everyone. You will find it called 'Da Vinci Code with a brain' and I can certainly see that aspect. However, this is a dense and deep book. There is a lot going on here, yes some of it is nonsense, and can be a lot to take in. This can lead people to hate Eco's work ('Name of the Rose' suffers from this often, though it is a magnificent book!). A vague working knowledge of Latin, French and It...more
Jan 04, 200840 Forte rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Eco once said that author Dan Brown (Angels & Demons, DaVinci Code, etc) might have very well been one of the characters he created in Focault's Pendulum. Eco uses Focault's pendulum to showcase the absurdity in over analyzing ancient legends or secret societies and in the process creates an intellectual and dizzying tale that stands in direct contrast to the Dan Brown's of the world writing for the pop culture masses.
The work is a discourse in secret societies (Templar Knights, Freemasons,...more
The work is a discourse in secret societies (Templar Knights, Freemasons,...more
Dec 02, 2013Paul rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Eco likes to show off his knowledge and the depth of his reading and he does so with a great flourish in this novel. It’s a difficult one to classify as it crosses genres and throws all sorts of references into the pot. It is really part thriller, part detective with a good dose of conspiracy theory and meandering down the byways of historical obscurity. Of course the whole thing may just be a postmodern joke!
There are lots of nods, winks and jokes throughout. Eco was good friends with the Frenc...more
Jun 10, 2010Michael rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThere are lots of nods, winks and jokes throughout. Eco was good friends with the Frenc...more
Shelves: aa-italylit, eco-umberto, xlong-over-400, translation, espionage, aa-europelit, all-five-star, pomo, aaa-top-translation, zz1987
020219 from ??? 90s: i think of this as literary philosophical corrective to pynchon’s work (any of his books...), where everything is involved in a massive conspiracy. more, not denying this but informed by learning so many, so constant, ludicrous, dangerous, hateful creative conspiracy, this book offers sort of the ‘theory of conspiracy’...
this book insists that now and then, before and after, never and forever that disparate unrelated events or knowledge can all be made to connect, that once...more
this book insists that now and then, before and after, never and forever that disparate unrelated events or knowledge can all be made to connect, that once...more
Oct 19, 2007Heidi rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Maybe this will make me look stupid... but this book was far too brainy, academic and philosophical to be a really engrossing read. I had to make myself slog through certain portions of this book -- Eco is clearly brilliant, but needs to learn to keep a plot together. Too much extraneous information, too many digressions, too much detailed background information, and you distract from the plot.
This is not an easy read. This book will take patience, ambition, and perseverence to read. It's worth...more
This is not an easy read. This book will take patience, ambition, and perseverence to read. It's worth...more
Jun 29, 2009Andreea rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This was my second attempt at Umberto Eco's novel, the first time I only got through about half of the book before giving it up in favor of, simply put- more 'exciting' books. I picked it up again because I had to read a book about secret societies for the Summer Challenge on The Next Best Book Club and the only alternative was Dan Brown's Angels and Demons (and I'm not that keen on Dan Brown's writing style). In the end, once I tried to think everything through, the book proved to be amazing an...more
Jul 16, 2010Michael rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: literary-fiction, conspiracy, 1980s, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die, historical-fiction, european-literature, meta, post-modernism, translated-fiction, mystery
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 connection...more
Nov 21, 2016Sara rated it liked it · review of another edition
I loved The Name of the Rose. I liked the obscure, Medieval tone of it. I enjoyed the characters and the story. I was prepared to feel the same about Foucault’s Pendulum, although I had been warned there was little similarity between the two. I was disappointed.
Foucault’s is Dan Brown on steroids. It is as if Eco (who never needs to prove his brilliance), needed to prove his brilliance on absolutely every page. There are references to Rosicrucians and Templars, as they are at the heart of the st...more
Foucault’s is Dan Brown on steroids. It is as if Eco (who never needs to prove his brilliance), needed to prove his brilliance on absolutely every page. There are references to Rosicrucians and Templars, as they are at the heart of the st...more
Jan 10, 2008Ray rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
It goes without saying that Foucault's Pendulum is one of the most profound novels I've ever read, and is more relevant than ever in these conspiratorial times.
Eco's expertise in the realm of all things occult is astounding, and even more so as he criticizes the fields of 'Neo-Templarism' and secret societies which portend to have historical merit and try to influence the world by way of obscure publishing. Then there is the saga of the game which goes out of control, simply amazing writing. Mu...more
Eco's expertise in the realm of all things occult is astounding, and even more so as he criticizes the fields of 'Neo-Templarism' and secret societies which portend to have historical merit and try to influence the world by way of obscure publishing. Then there is the saga of the game which goes out of control, simply amazing writing. Mu...more
Mar 23, 2016Edward Lorn added it · review of another edition
DNF. I'm too dumb for this one.
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Nov 25, 2010Scribble Orca rated it really liked it · review of another editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUNJ...
Recommends it for: anyone who loves a brilliant read
Shelves: historical, adult-or-mature, all-time-favourite, metaphysics, literary
Forget Dan Brown and others of the same ilk. This is the original rolled-neatly-into-one conspiracy theory to end all others. Eco is a Professor of Semiotics in Italy, and uses his vast understanding of symbolism to create a compelling read.
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Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions. His perceptive essays on modern culture are filled with a delightful sen...more
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