Умберто Эко. Маятник Фуко

After the release of the world bestseller "Name of the Rose" (1980), the glorification of the famous film, the Italian historian, esthetician, structuralist, Umberto Eco was in a difficult position. As for the second time to take such a height? How to write a successful book, at least for different readers and erudite and inexperienced? The book is as lively as it is wise, as sardonichnuyu much and gentle? Author risked - and confirmed the previous record. "Foucault's Pendulum" (1988) was famous for not less than "the Rose", and the film on it is not removed just because the author himself did not allow this great Stanley Kubrick. On these pages interact editors Milanese publishing house of the Knights Templar, the priests of voodoo and antifascist partisans. Told and the legendary Knights Templar, secret masters of the world, but just to remind you that the story is authentic when its foundation - an indisputable document. Everything else - the game. The game, which is dangerous.