Show 4E" Standard-Examin- Sunday Nov 12 1989 er HorizonsBooks Italian author works Information overload ruins good attempt more bookish magic ner of a certain street Why didn’t Eco’s character mention it — he must have passed close by as he left the scene of the crime? “One of the side effects of the mass media is that they bring fiction to people who've never read a novel before and who don't share in the fictional agreement the suspension of disbelief” Eco says There are probably he thinks no more than 50000 people in any country who belong in the category of novel readers For all the jokes this country where fiction joins reality is a frightening place Eco sees the habits of misinterpretation spreading on all sides Indeed his new book is all about that and in particular about the plunge into occultism he observed in the generation of 1968 “Foucault's Pendulum” plot is about Templars Rosicrucians Masons and their crazed attempts to interpret the world as though there was a buried By LORNA SAGE ‘London FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM By Umberto Eco Harcourt Brace Jovanovich $2295 Jack Kerouac once wrote about a group of particularly intimidating intellectuals who had such an easy grasp of Ezra Pound's work they could spin jokes from it What's that sound? Oh just Umberto Eco chuckling as he rewrites civilized history' Yes in its entirety "In Foucault's Pendulum" Eco the man who left begging for more after the success of “The Name of the Rose” in 1983 — a medieval murder mystery more talked about than read — is back with a stunning compendium of knowledge that seems to launch its own subtle attack on intellectual hubris The narrator Casaubon head of his own n cultural detective agency (he sleuths facts for scholars) has a midlife quest in the company of two editors (Belbo and Diotallevi) of a vanity publishing house in Milan They set out to reveal the plan of the Knights Templar a menacing secret society supposedly exterminated in medieval times which may have merely gone underground The three load a computer nicknamed Abulaf-i-a with the effluvia of ages connecting all manner of secret orders occult happenings and world events assuming all the while they are engaged in play — inventing a game of sorts something on the order of Dungeons and Dragons in which the ultimate goal is to take over the world by finding the prime source of energy — until pursuit convinces them that somehow they've interjected themselves into the midst of the world's oldest conspiracy meant to culminate in this century And it's deadly This is a both a thriller and a metaphy sical marvel Its breadth and depth of knowledge at first dazzles But then the uninterrupted presentation of information becomes an assault before which the mind closes down in self protection The pity Observer Service MILAN Italy — This time Umberto Eco has gonc too far: He's a phenomenon a scandal a traitor to the intellectual classes His second novel “Foucault's Pendulum" has broken the records set 'by his first “The Name of the Rose” ' It already has sold more than half a million ‘hardback copies before translation and even those who forgave him his earlier success have succumbed to snobbish sneers Producing one bookish best seller might be regarded as a fluke Doing it twice is uncanny Italian newspapers have even run polls to see how mans readers have got to page 50 page 150 page 509" I Meanwhile Eco goes on with business as usual 5 — teaching at the University of Bologna living in jMilan visiting the United States to lecture on strictly academic topics His silence however has proved to be an additional titillation and now he Thas given up even on that ! He is by turns ironic cross cool and funny in the face of all the fuss When I went to see him he g was about to embark on a fortnight's “cure” to shed the extra pounds for which he reckons the book is already to blame Not that he's changed much on the outside — he's naturally stocky and a bit rotund and though the beard shows traces of gray that's to be expe: cted at age 57 t He talks about the frontiers of the book world For instance: He's just been served an injunction bv a man in Cyprus who claims to have written :“The Name of the Rose” in 1964 and this is just the tip of the lunatic iceberg He also received a letter from a man who consulted the new spapers of June 24 1964 — the date of the narrative climax in “Foucault's Pendulum” — and discovered that there was a fire on the cor -- one-ma- Enigma “Everything I tried to invent is true I have a drawer full of letters saying ‘You told us the real secret’ a special drawer marked ‘Diabolicals’ “I am not an Italian writer — my idea of narran tive owes a lot to traditions to French German” Eco says “In Italy the novel was seen as a poem In a poem language comes first but in a narrative it’s the story the ideas the narrative functions and language must cope with them My work is contrary to Italian ideology” This is why Eco says his work translates so well “Narrativity is based on narrative structures which are international If the man in Cyprus is right it's because we’re both using fictional archetypes the curse of the abbey the criminal abbot” Books for Eco are not sacred icons but material things and there’s a special pleasure in these obscure collectors' items that confide the secret of the universe He thinks the past should teach us a kind of vital modesty O Anglo-Saxo- try-lin- is Eco wrote what he knew — all of it By Sherryl Connelly New York Daily News Author Umberto Eco Best sellers T Publishers Weekly Here are the best sellers for the week ending Nov 10 compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores book wholesal- ers and independent distributors nationwide Hardcover fiction Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy Putnam $2195 2 Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco Harcourt Brace Jovanovich $2295 3 The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett William Morrow $2295 4 The Dark Half Stephen King Viking $2195 5 Jimmy Stewart and His Poems Jimmy Stewart Crown $895 ) IT'S A 6 The Minotaur Stephen Coonts Doubleday $1995 7 California Gold John Jakes Random House $1995 8 Some Can Whistle Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster $1995 9 Tales From Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fiction Jimmy Buffett Harcourt Brace Jovanovich $1695 Hardcover nonfiction All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Robert Fulghum Villard Books $1595 2 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down on It Robert Fulghum Villard $1795 3 Roseannel: My Life as a Woman Roseanne Barr Harper & Row $1795 1 4 Wealth Without Risk Charles Givens Simon & Schuster $1995 5 The Diet Martin Katahn Norton $1895 6 Confessions of an SOB A1 Neuharth Doubleday $1895 7 My Turn: The Memoir of Nancy Reagan Nancy Reagan and William Novak Random House $2195 8 Martha Stewart’s Christ- mas: Entertaining Decorating and Giving Martha Stewart Crown $1895 9 Want to Grow Hair I Want to Grow Up I Want to Go to Boise Erma Bombeck Harper & Row $1695 I Anne Rice Ballantine Trevayne Robert Ludlum $595 Koko Peter Straub NAL 5 Bantam 6 Tom Clancy Berkley $595 9 Man From Mundania Piers Anthony Avon $450 $595 7 $595 Cardinal of the Kremlin 8 Queen of the Damned Paperback best sellers ' 1 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler Berkley $550 2 Blind Faith Joe McGinnis NALSignet $595 3 Midnight Dean R Koontz Berkley $495 4 Final Flight Stephen Coonts Dell $595 24TH & 25TH IMOV Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts Weber State College -A- DVERTISEMENT- NATURAL with Orchestra Artistic Director - John Hart Choreography - Wiliam Christensen NOV 24 6 25 FRI 2:00 SAT FRI 7:00 2:00 SAT 7:00 HANDS OF A CHAMPION ft I If your I - hairstyle needs shy we have the perfect solution our exclusive Matrix OptICurt’perm! 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