Book · 1988 · Fiction

Foucault's Pendulum

Name: Foucault's Pendulum
Author: Umberto Eco

Harvest Books · 623 pages

★ 5.5 editorial score

Three editors, buried in crank manuscripts about the Templars, invent a secret history of the world as a joke and feed it to a computer. Then the actual occultists arrive, wanting the secret.

Genre

Speculative fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Conspiracy theories Search for meaning

Setting

Milan, Italy

Time

1988

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Quote · 1625

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”

Francis Bacon

Quote · 1964

“The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a "vast" or "gigantic" conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost trancendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is no the usual methods of political give and take, but an all-out crusade.”

Richard Hofstadter