Foucault's Pendulum

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PtCADOR FOUCAULTS PENDULUM by UMBERTO ECO 'front the ever-swinging pendulum, the narratíve, like án advanced computer programme, multiplies, divides, proliferates, generates laws of series, and endlessly cross-refers full of mentái adventure, narratíve suspense, great intelligence and morál good humour. Foucault fs Pendulum bridges high academicism and the tricks of popular fiction, and offers to combine usually conflicting audiences' MALCOLM BRADBURY, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Eco's clear-sighted recognition of what is required of the thriller-writer bears witness to the fact that unlike just about any other Western intellectual you could name, he really loves popular culture... This is an extremely funny book, full of good jokes at the expense of exploitative publishers and pompous intellectuals... I doubt if we will see a more exhilarating növel published this year' JONATHAN COE, THE GUARDIAN 'Foucault 's Pendulum is as brilliant and quirky as The Name of the Rose> as mischievous and... Tovább

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PtCADOR FOUCAULTS PENDULUM by UMBERTO ECO 'front the ever-swinging pendulum, the narratíve, like án advanced computer programme, multiplies, divides, proliferates, generates laws of series, and endlessly cross-refers full of mentái adventure, narratíve suspense, great intelligence and morál good humour. Foucault fs Pendulum bridges high academicism and the tricks of popular fiction, and offers to combine usually conflicting audiences' MALCOLM BRADBURY, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Eco's clear-sighted recognition of what is required of the thriller-writer bears witness to the fact that unlike just about any other Western intellectual you could name, he really loves popular culture... This is an extremely funny book, full of good jokes at the expense of exploitative publishers and pompous intellectuals... I doubt if we will see a more exhilarating növel published this year' JONATHAN COE, THE GUARDIAN 'Foucault 's Pendulum is as brilliant and quirky as The Name of the Rose> as mischievous and wide-ranging, as playful and full of puns, allusions and literary references' ALIX MADRIGAL, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Tt's a museum, a numerological table, a toybox, a stained glass window and a silted up delta... Foucault zooms across continents, the centuries, in and out of the wisdom of cabala and the occult, of physics, of computer technology, of political foresight and hindsight, of the social and sexual móres of'60s/70s southern European intellectuals' NICK COLEMAN, 20/20 'Done with wit, learning, bravura and a sense of style worthy of the culture and society that produced the Renaissance. As Sterne's sentimental traveller might have said, they do things better in Italy... superb entertainment' JOHN BAYLEY, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Vissza