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A review by brookst
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
5.0
Still great, these many years later.
Eco's brilliance is in placing interesting, introspective characters in the most elaborate traps, often of their own making, and playing out the real person's reaction to surreal events.
The story unfolds methodically, and just like the characters, the reader thinks, ah, what a coincidence. Or maybe what if that other thing happened? But it does; it always does, and with rhythmic precision that the whole world descends on our poor protagonists' heads, with reader and character alike left with nothing but to admire the trap.
Eco's brilliance is in placing interesting, introspective characters in the most elaborate traps, often of their own making, and playing out the real person's reaction to surreal events.
The story unfolds methodically, and just like the characters, the reader thinks, ah, what a coincidence. Or maybe what if that other thing happened? But it does; it always does, and with rhythmic precision that the whole world descends on our poor protagonists' heads, with reader and character alike left with nothing but to admire the trap.