Summary “Foucault Pendulum”
The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the 20th century. a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, becomes, in his own words, philology: “I came to this as a man who boldly takes the texts of speeches about truth, ready to rule them.” He has a friendship with the scientific editor of the publishing house “Garamon” Belbo and his colleague Diotallevi, who does not interfere with the age difference – they are united by an interest in the riddles of the human mind and the Middle Ages. Cazobon wrote a thesis on the Templars – before the eyes of the reader is the history of this knightly brotherhood, its emergence, participation in the crusades,
Next, the novel enters the field of hypotheses – Kazobon and his friends are trying
The immediate reason for his departure is his love for the local native Amparo, a beautiful half-breed, imbued with Marx’s ideas and the pathos of a rational explanation of the world. However, the very magical atmosphere of the country and unusual meetings, which with a hard-to-explain persistence podkidyvaet his fate, make Kazobon still almost imperceptibly for himself to do the reverse evolution: the advantages of rational interpretations seem less obvious
In Milan, he again meets with Belbo and through him receives an invitation to cooperate in the publisher Garamon. At first we are talking about compiling a scientific encyclopedia of metals, but soon the field of his interests is expanding significantly, again capturing the sphere of the mysterious and esoteric – he admits to himself that it makes it increasingly difficult to separate the world of magic from the world of science: people who are still in school he was told that they carried the light of mathematics and physics into the jungle of superstitions, as it turns out, they made their discoveries, “relying on the one hand, on the laboratory, and on the other – on Kabbalah.” The so-called “Hermes” project, the brainchild of Mr. Garamon, the head of the publishing house, also contributes to this very well. Kazobon, Belbo, and Diotallevi are also involved in its implementation. The essence of it is, to declare a series of publications on occultism, magic, etc., attract both serious authors and fanatics, crazy, ready to pay money for the publication of their creations – these latter are supposed to be floated to the publishing house “Manuzio”, whose kinship with “Garamon” is held in the strictest secret – it is intended for the publication of books at the expense of the authors, in practice being reduced to the ruthless “extortion” of their purses. In the environment of the occultists, “Garamon” counts on a rich catch and therefore urges Belbo and his friends not to neglect anyone. is kept in the strictest secrecy – it is intended for the publication of books at the expense of the authors, in practice being reduced to merciless “extortion” of their purses. In the environment of the occultists, “Garamon” counts on a rich catch and therefore urges Belbo and his friends not to neglect anyone. is kept in the strictest secrecy – it is intended for the publication of books at the expense of the authors, in practice being reduced to merciless “extortion” of their purses. In the environment of the occultists, “Garamon” counts on a rich catch and therefore urges Belbo and his friends not to neglect anyone.
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