Foucault's Pendulum

“An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph.”—Anthony Burgess“Foucault''s Pendulum is Eco''s magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco puts himself in ...

“An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph.”—Anthony Burgess“Foucault''s Pendulum is Eco''s magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco puts himself in the grand and acerbic tradition of Petronius, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire.”—Chicago Tribune“Rich and witty.”—NewsweekInfused with history and crackling suspense, Umberto Eco’s celebrated international bestseller—a cerebral classic, prescient of our own times, about a literary joke that goes terribly awry, unexpectedly plunging its creators into mortal danger.A man named Colonel Ardenti tells three c