{"product_id":"foucault-s-pendulum-9780063279650","title":"Foucault's Pendulum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph.\"--Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rich and witty.\"--Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfused 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA man named Colonel Ardenti tells three cynical book editors that he has discovered a coded message about a centuries-old Knights Templar plan to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors, bored from tooling with manuscripts on the occult and inspired by the colonel's outlandish claims, devise a literary prank for their own amusement. Using a computer, into which they enter bits of information on the Knights Templar, Satanic initiation rites, Rosicrucianism, the measurements of the Great Pyramid, and supernatural and occult phenomenon, they create a map indicating a point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled--a point located at Foucault's Pendulum in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe editors are convinced they've devised the ultimate literary joke, a game to consume conspiracy theorists, mystical buffs, and everyone else fool enough to play.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut their joke becomes all too terrifyingly real when people begin to disappear mysteriously, beginning with the Colonel. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54036833599834,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/14000603482210.jpg?v=1776762842","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/foucault-s-pendulum-9780063279650","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}