- Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books; Auflage: Reprint (13. November 1990)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0345368754
- ISBN-13: 978-0345368751
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,2 x 3,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (137 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 256.372 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Eco, an Italian philosopher and best-selling novelist, is a great polymathic fabulist in the tradition of Swift, Voltaire, Joyce, and Borges. The Name of the Rose, which sold 50 million copies worldwide, is an experimental medieval whodunit set in a monastic library. In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate heresy among the monks in an Italian abbey; a series of bizarre murders overshadows the mission. Within the mystery is a tale of books, librarians, patrons, censorship, and the search for truth in a period of tension between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. The book became a hit despite some obscure passages and allusions. This deftly abridged version, ably performed by Theodore Bikel, retains the genius of the original but is far more accessible. Foucault's Pendulum, Eco's second novel, is a bit irritating. The plot consists of three Milan editors who concoct a series on the occult for an unscrupulous publishing house that Eco ridicules mercilessly. The work details medieval phenomena including the Knights Templar, an ancient order with a scheme to dominate the world. Unfortunately, few listeners will make sense of this failed thriller. The Island of the Day Before is an ingenious tale that begins with a shipwreck in 1643. Roberta della Griva survives and boards another ship only to find himself trapped. Flashbacks give us Renaissance battles, the French court, spies, intriguing love affairs, and the attempt to solve the problem of longitude. It's a world of metaphors and paradoxes created by an entertaining scholar. Tim Curry, who also narrates Foucault's Pendulum, provides a spirited narration. Ultimately, libraries should avoid Foucault's Pendulum, but educated patrons will form an eager audience for both The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.?James Dudley, Copiague, N.Y.
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This book has it all! Mystery, thriller, suspense, world history, masons, world conspiracy, voodoo, magic, computers trying to reproduce the true name of God, jewish mysticism , druids of the forests, underground tunels that connect strategic points of the planet, publishers and writers, knights of the temple, action all around the world through the past 2 milenia. YOU NAME IT. Centuries of conspiracy and battle for the domination of the world , unspeakable secrets passed upon generation to generation from a few chosen ones, build up until the last climactic pages of the book.
ADVICE:
The book is really worth for its money and it will keep you awake for a few days. You will refuse to close the book until you reach the end. In the beginning you will not understand a thing, what is going on, who are these people, what are they trying to do. Never mind, just carry on. Eco meant the book to be this way! Enjoy the book and if you dont understand some historical remarks never mind, just continue, dont stumble upon the little details and the dates, get the big picture. You will have plenty of time to think about it after you have finished but the main thing is to go entirely through the book and finish it. It will leave you with your mouth open. Dont let yourself think :I cant understand this, I am an idiot therefore I will not continue. No, just finish the book , at the end you will be rewarded as is the case with all of Ecos books. After all there is no such thing as "I dont understand the book", there is only "I didnt let myself free enough to understand it".
Eco writes his books this way, they are only meant for the strong of spirit, people with perseverance that are willing to strugle in order to reach the ultimate truth that only the very few have mastered. His novels are deliberately cryptic but only to the point that they discourage the faint of hurt. For the few strong men that are willing to engage into the battle, all the mysteries and the hypes reveil themselfs at the end,like the petals of a rose in the spring. This is the REWARD, something central on Eco's novels.
IN ORDER TO PROVE MY POINT ECO HIMSELF ADMITTED that he included the first hundred pages of pure history in the "Name of the Rose" just to discourage the readers that would not have the strenght to continue with the book. That was the PRICE! that the readers have to pay in order to reach the monastery up in the mountains that the story takes place. His editor suggested that he should completely remove this big part of the book but Eco denied!
Going back to the PENDULUM, You should never forget that this book is a really mystery book. Not only for the heros of the book but also for you , the reader. There were times that I felt that I was involved in this world conspiracy and I may be in danger like the hero of the book. That is the trully amazing element of Eco. It gets the reader involved. And at the end you will have a completely different point of view about the world.
Eco has said that the ultimate mystery book is the one that the READER is himself the killer!
I definetely recommend the book, it will not dissapoint you.
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Whenever I've got nothing to read I always go to the amazon.com reviews page of my favorite books. Focault's Pendulum is my favorite book and by checking out the customers reviews I discovered some fantasic books that I may not have discovered otherwise. For instance: An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, Perfume by Patrick Suskind and Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller. Now it is my turn to return the favor: the book is called The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch and it is Fantastic. Equally fantastic is a book by a German writer called Helmut Krausser. The name of the book is Melodies and Helmut Krausser can only be described as the love child of Umberto Eco and Stanley Kubrick. Unfortunately, I don't think it has been translated into English yet! (I read it in German). Look out for it though! The Discovery of heaven has been translated and you can get it through amazon.com. I hope my contribution has been helpful to other Eco enthousiasts.
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Just because a book is interlaced with a vast bank of intellectual data does NOT necessarily qualify it as a great read. To compare this book with Ulysses and War & Peace is a crime; those books were exceptionally well written. I personally believe that many readers praise this book simply to qualify themselves as 'advanced' intellectuals. Big deal! I have read the book and found it endowed with much knowledge but that did not make it a good read. Look at the other reviews and you'll find one reoccurring theme, "Patchy", "Choppy" etc..; I could not agree more. Let's face it people the Oxford English Dictionary is a complex, intellectually challenging publication, that does not mean I want to read it from cover to cover. If it's bragging rights you're looking for then read "Foucault's Pendulum." If its fine, eloquent writing you seek, save yourself the money!
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a smart man's "Da Vinci Code" - i'd rather stay dumb
I very much liked Eco's "Name of the Rose" and hoped to find an entertaining and interesting story. The novel starts out promising but then quickly gets boring. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juni 2007 von Joachim Heuser
The cure for conspiracy buffs! `Eyes Wide Open'.
I chain read, like smoke, and I was onto `The Holy Blood, The Holy Grail' (still the best one!) series of secret societies within the cabals of power, Mars mysteries, secret... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juli 2000 von Craig G Cram
Intricate
Well now, I didn't think it was THAT hard to understand. My biggest problem with this book was getting past the first couple chapters (the book starts near the end of the story),... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juli 2000 von Robert A. Hans
You'd better have an unabridged dictionary handy....
Umberto Eco is a major cause of headaches. Well, he was for me, at least.
About seven years ago, I bought myself a paperback copy of Foucault's Pendulum at the university book... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juli 2000 von Shantell Powell
The full tour of imagined european history.
Are you interested in the relationship between "History" and "Story"? Do you want to know where the boundaries lie? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juni 2000 von nc
Hard Work
I was hooked in the beginning, but then I was bogged down in what a previous reviewer aptly described as "the big lump of detailed nonsense in the middle". Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
not for the faint of heart
Eco is one of the greatest living writers in any language. Still, because of his erudition, many of his works are only accessible to scholars. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von M. H. Bayliss
Intellectual thriller extraordinaire!
Let's just put it on the table: Foucault's Pendulum is one of the greatest intellectual thrillers of all time. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Mai 2000 von Earl D
ECO's most interesting
this one will keep your attention, challenge your intellect, and most likely give you the creeps.
Veröffentlicht am 20. Mai 2000 von "prospero@freewwweb.com"
A joke book for the gods
Eco is having the last laugh.
In "Foucault's Pendulum" Umberto Eco is writing a huge joke with the whole world as the punchline. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 2000 von Jaq Greenspon
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