Foucault's Pendulum Summary
Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and po... Read more

As a semiotician, novelist, medieval scholar, journalist, and parodist, Umberto Eco has produced an amazingly diverse and influential body of work since the 1950s, and he is certainly one of the most ... Read more

In the following review, Ragusa anticipates two sorts of reader responses to Foucault's Pendulum. By the time this review is in print, the English translation of Il pendolo di Foucault (Fouc... Read more

In the following essay, Hutcheon traces the narrative development of irony in Foucault's Pendulum, highlighting the novel's representation of semiotic differences between modern and post... Read more

In the following essay, Smith focuses on Foucault's Pendulum, relating Eco's comments about its publication history and methodology. In 1979 Umberto Eco was a professor of semiotics w... Read more

In the following review, Adams commends Eco's achievement in Foucault's Pendulum. The obsessed or distracted scholar, who knows so much about the cosmos in general that he doesn... Read more

In the following review, O'Toole praises the plotting and humor of Foucault's Pendulum. Nearly every form of mysticism and the Occult known to Western man is catalogued in this encycl... Read more