Foucault's Pendulum
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| :"Wanting [[connection]]s, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything." [[Umberto Eco]], ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''. | :"Wanting [[connection]]s, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything." [[Umberto Eco]], ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''. | ||
| - | '''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' (original title: ''Il pendolo di Foucault'') is a [[novel]] by [[Italy|Italian]] [[novelist]] and [[philosopher]] [[Umberto Eco]]. It was first published in [[1988]]; the translation into English by [[William Weaver]] appeared a year later. '''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' was re-issued by [[Harcourt]] March 2007. | + | '''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' (original title: ''Il pendolo di Foucault'') is a [[novel]] by [[Italy|Italian]] [[novelist]] and [[philosopher]] [[Umberto Eco]]. It was first published in [[1988]]; the English translation appeared a year later. |
| ''Foucault's Pendulum'' is divided into ten segments represented by the ten [[Sephirot (Kabbalah)|Sefiroth]]. The novel is full of [[esoteric]] references to the [[Kabbalah]], [[alchemy]] and [[conspiracy theory]], so many that critic and novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] has suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book derives from [[Foucault pendulum|an actual pendulum]] designed by the French physicist [[Léon Foucault]] to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. | ''Foucault's Pendulum'' is divided into ten segments represented by the ten [[Sephirot (Kabbalah)|Sefiroth]]. The novel is full of [[esoteric]] references to the [[Kabbalah]], [[alchemy]] and [[conspiracy theory]], so many that critic and novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] has suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book derives from [[Foucault pendulum|an actual pendulum]] designed by the French physicist [[Léon Foucault]] to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. | ||
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- "Wanting connections, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything." Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum.
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the English translation appeared a year later.
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory, so many that critic and novelist Anthony Burgess has suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book derives from an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.
Eco took the premise from this book from a short tale by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges called "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". It is not the first time Eco has made reference to Borges, as the character of Jorge de Burgos, the blind monk inThe Name of the Rose, is based on Borges, and the library is clearly based on another tale by the same writer, "La biblioteca de Babel".
