Publikace: Foucault´s Pendulum - ECO, U.. Book Summary Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth. About the Author Umberto Eco is the author of three bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of The Day Before. His collections of essays also include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy. Publikace: Foucault´s Pendulum - ECO, U.. Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game—until the game starts taking over... Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco-or indeed anyone-has ever devised. Foucaults Pendulum - Umberto Eco od authora Umberto Eco a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz This novel by the author of ''The Name of the Rose'' follows that book's format of a complex intellectual thriller. The plot ranges back and forth through the centuries, full of arcane knowledge, secret societies, love, death, passion and perversion.