The Da Vinci Pendulum

    Lit, Etc.
Oct 232005
 

Talk­ing about Foucault’s Pen­du­lum, there is a sense in which you did the Da Vinci Code before Dan Brown did. Of course, you did it as a myth that takes on a strange real­ity and he did it as it was his­tor­i­cal truth.

I told Dan Brown’s story. My char­ac­ters are his. I gave the broad pic­ture of this kind of literature.


Umberto Eco, in The Hindu. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that Mr. Eco is claim­ing he is Dan Brown’s inspi­ra­tion. Oh, well, Christ­mas is approach­ing and I guess peo­ple want to con­fess to their crimes. Good Lord, please spare Umberto. He is just a pro­fes­sor who writes books on Sundays.

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  2 Responses to “The Da Vinci Pendulum”

  1. Veena says:
    Oct, 23 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Dan Brown could actu­ally fin­ish the Foucault’s Pen­du­lum? Man, I am start­ing to respect this guy now. :)

  2. DoZ says:
    Oct, 25 2005 at 6:28 pm

    I’ve read Foucault’s Pen­du­lum, and agree that Brown’s work is sorta like Foucault’s Pen­du­lum For Dum­mies. OK, that’s an exager­ra­tion, because the two books aren’t com­pletely sim­i­lar. I’ll have to re-read FP some­time (read in the next 50 or so years, if am alive, maybe), because the first time around, a lot of it went over my head, and some bits went right through lead­ing to night­mares… Not a fun expe­ri­ence. But such expe­ri­ences are good for the soul, or so I tell my Mom.

    The best part of that inter­view was this very com­fort­ing line — “I started writ­ing nar­ra­tives [nov­els] so late — at the age of 50, more or less.” Yipee!! There’s still time!

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