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