Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
criminal history is summarized ansich quite short: three Milanese publishing editors are concerned, due to some change in the publisher program, comprising of secret societies, Conspiracies and esoteric. Based on a few points, with the extensive reading of published works to date, they created out of a newly discovered document, the discoverer seems gone, and with great joy literary work, a new world history. A world history of the conspiracy and mystery. The core of this accumulated history of secret societies, is a six hundred year plan of the Templars, divided into 5 section a 120 years, will be at the end of the re-discovery and exploitation of the navel of the world. Had not one of them, then killed as a result, lector, had Belbo, no desire to carry this great plan to be seen to do, so nothing had happened. But the plan is taken seriously, Belbo blackmailed, coerced, abducted to the final secret - the point of the navel, he did not know of course - to disclose. He is murdered, while his colleague while watching Casaubon alphabetic escapes from the secret societies and flees to the thinking of their great plan.
Another story is that of childhood Belbo, who was at the end of Italian fascism in his youth. Too young to participate this round, and not-participate in the freedom struggle of the partisans and regrets to his then-youthful, indifference is deliberately modest. It is this also results in reference to the establishment of the great plan and also in other areas of life, to feel that he is under of evidence and has the irresistible urge to finally triumph of truth and thus a better sense of its own accord. He succeeds when he says "no", the slopes immediately forthcoming. And yet he had succeeded in its infancy, already, albeit on a different level.
And everything depended on Jacopo, he needed to sell only to loosen the thread, and the sun would have jumped off like a ball, and with it the day and the events of that day, this phase without action, this sequence without before and After that expired motionless, just because he had the power to do so and it to do so. (743)
Based on these stories - and the likelihood of these secret sects - this is irredeemably search for knowledge. Which indeed underlies it going to be more of knowledge must, as it is known. That the world, the individual events of history, closely linked to, so they make sense. If yes, the classic hubris. It is about creating the opportunity to acquire knowledge and understanding - especially in spite of, always, lack of comprehensive and accessible information. After all, the mystery of a sort of glow on the edge of consciousness, an idea is that one has - and behind the one great thought. Equally, however, and it shows in the book by killing Belbo, one fears the loss of one's own purpose in life, if one were to actually decode the mystery.
Although me the extent of Umberto Eco's novels always be some hesitation, to begin to read, I never regret it, at least. On the one hand because of the numerous intertextual references and the bonds and to other works and events. On the other hand, because of the extensive integration into the historical context - in this case, the context of the disintegration of the political left (not only) in Italy from '68 and the beginning of the 70s and, by the loss of an expectable and perceived as such a political solution and replacement of political objectives by the resurgence religious "solution". Not for nothing then follows the end of history Belbo, as it were (on the capitalist reality?) Desperate leftist intellectuals to the death of Enrico Berlinguer. Closely linked with this is indeed the search for knowledge - and for Italy more than other countries - for the right path of the left. Another piece in the puzzle of why the work was fascinating then to all those pages is just the fascination that emanates from this endless search for more and more knowledge. And the limited resources of history, to expand by conjecture to conjecture, which has always been his certain charm - and one can actually imperceptibly cross the threshold, some in holding free story-telling, the story plunges into his own creation ... But if you then can create a laundry list of a mystery? That is what the laundry list, Lia, Casaubon's girlfriend, has the "document" that the big plan is based, is identified as such acts disturbing. For odd, after having invented the whole story? It is believed to be but rather the spark of truth in it, for all rejected, so one has thought of. At least, a small but extremely fascinating element in the plant.
(33 [of the thought-out plan is true], 61 [always late born]; 64 [Revolution at the universities], 80 [The Dumb] 92 [Institute of Comparative Irrelevance], 102 [Hermits], 114 [End of the Crusades], 132 [city commission before rally], 160 [Agrippa von Nettesheim] 168 [ numerology], 169 [Joseph of Arimathea -> Grail], 188 [] lie to police, 243 [actual story;] not chronological, 277 [Foucault pendulum], 294 [self-published], 318 [SS -> Seven Dwarfs] , 423 [analogies], 426 [vertical = life], 453 [Alexander Nevsky in Estonia], 442 [the relevant compounds are] [-> Paulicians] 455; 545 [possessed by the book], 548 [used to it all join]; 627 [laundry list], 645 [obligation quote, by the life defeated], 651 [funeral of Enrico Berlinguer], 655 [-> Ragotgky], 658 [the "Tres"], 686 [Templi Resurgent Equites Synarchici], 728 [plan really]; 738] [Speech, 743 [The Trumpet -> Sky])
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