Foucault’s Pendulum

Analysis of Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 11, 2022

Foucault’s Pendulum is the second novel by the highly prolific Italian writer Umberto Eco (1932–2016), and continues the pattern of linguistic games and narrative proliferation established in The Name of the Rose. This time the focus is more contemporary, with… Read More ›

Postmodern Paranoia

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

Paranoia, or the threat of total engulfment by somebody else’s system, is keenly felt by many of the dramatis personae of postmodernist fiction. It is tempting to speculate that this is an indirect mimetic representation of the climate of fear… Read More ›