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| title = Foucault's Pendulum
| original title = Il pendolo di Foucault
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| author = Umberto Eco
| central theme = the deconstruction of the [[Conspiracy Theorist]].
| elevator pitch = Three very bored friends create an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] for shit and giggles, then things go to hell when some external people begin to take their bogus theories way too seriously.
| genre = Secret history
| publication date = 1988
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'''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' is a 1988 novel by [[Umberto Eco]], and a notable work of [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracy literature]].
While ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' plays the conspiracy theory view of history completely straight, and ''[[Illuminatus]]!'' subverts it wildly, this novel is an [[Viewers Are Geniuses|elaborate]] and [[Take That|sometimes savage]] [[Deconstruction]].
* Casaubon: Protagonist and narrator. Also an intellectual dilettante and expert on [[The Knights Templar]].
* Belbo: Editor who is haunted by failure and frustrated desires.
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