| Edition |
First trade edition. |
| Description |
641 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault. |
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Vodou -- Fiction.
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Religions -- Fiction.
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Idolatry -- Fiction.
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Foucault's pendulum -- Fiction.
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Alchemists -- Fiction.
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Thought and thinking -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Subject |
Occultism -- Fiction.
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| Added Title |
Pendolo di Foucault. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Eco, Umberto. Pendolo di Foucault. English. Foucault's pendulum. 1st trade ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989 (OCoLC)645443688 |
| ISBN |
0151327653 |
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9780151327652 |
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