Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the
Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other
occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map
indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the
earth can be controlled--a point located in Paris, France, at
Foucault''s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too
real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the
Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest
to gain control of the earth.
Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his
multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral
entertainment.
關於作者：
Umberto Eco born 5 January 1932 is an Italian medievalist,
semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known
for his novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery
combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies
and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault''s Pendulum has been
described as a "thinking person''s Da Vinci Code". Eco is President
of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of
Bologna. He has also written academic texts, children’s books and
many essays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region
of Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the
government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War
II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in
the Piedmontese mountainside. Eco received a Salesian education,
and he has made references to the order and its founder in his
works and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym of
ex caelis oblatus Latin: a gift from the heavens, which was given
to his grandfather a foundling by a city official. His father was
the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto to
become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to
take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on
Thomas Aquinas and earning his BA in philosophy in 1954. During
this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of
faith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state
broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana RAI and also
lectured at the University of Turin 1956–64. A group of
avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had
befriended at RAI Gruppo 63 became an important and influential
component in Eco''s future writing career. This was especially true
after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema
estetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral
thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at
his alma mater. In September 1962, he married Renate Ramge, a
German art teacher with whom he has a son and a daughter. He
divides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation house
near Rimini.
目錄：
KETER
1. When the light of the infinite
2. Wee haue divers curious Clocks
HOKHMAH
3. In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli
4. He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden
5. And begin by combining this name
6. Juda Le6n se dio a permutaciones
BINAH
7. Do not expect too much of the end of the world
8. Having come from the light and from the gods
9. In his right hand he held a golden trumpet
10. And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred
11. His sterility was infinite
12. Sub umbra alarum tuarum
13. Li frere, li mestre du Temple
14. He, if asked, would also confess to killing Our Lord
15. I will go and fetch you help from the Comte d''Anjou
16. He had been in the order only nine months
17. And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish
18. A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns
19. The Order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment
2o. Invisible center, the sovereign who must reawaken
21. The Graal... is a weight so heavy
22. The knights wanted to face no further questions
HESED
23. The analogy of opposites
……
MALKHUT
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