Da Vinci Code v El Pendulo de Foucault

Recientemente lei varios articulos relacionados a Umberto Eco y la otorgacion de un Doctorado Honoris causa en Espa/na y recorde esta vieja controversia. Uno de los libros mas vendidos en tiempos recientes es The DaVinci Code, por Dan Brown. La pelicula causo la furia de la Iglesia Catolica y de los grupos fundamentalistas (incluyendo cierto caballero merovingio que regala medallas a politicos acefalos).

http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/rivera_schatz_recibe_medalla_de_principe_descendiente_de_familia_de_jesus/365759

Dan Brown es un autor llevado a la fama por su entretenido libro. Su best seller lo hacen pelicula, protagonizado nada mas y nada menos que por T. Hanks. La premisa, regurgitar conspiraciones new age y apretar todos los botones equivocados. Que Maria Magdalena y Jesus tuvieron descendencia, eso debe enfurecer a los Catolicos, mira como fastidiaron con The Last Temptation of Christ, donde implicaron lo mismo, pero solo fue un sue/no.

Bueno, Mr. Brown, que tiene el estilo literario de un ni/no de octavo grado, produce este bestseller. Es regurguitado y refrito de libros similares, pero vende bien. Es como un sudoku, con 50 versiones pero todos se resuelven igual. Es como un misterio de Scooby Doo, donde te van dando pistas que vas resolviendo mientras lees. "Fue el se/nor Jenkins con la azada, no queria que supieran que don Peyo guardo su oro debajo del Roble Ventoso" equivale a, "Por Dios, es la secuencia de Fibonacci". 'Y lo hubieramos logrado si no hubiese sido por ese maldito Langdon. Simbologista de mierda!".

De nuevo al tema. En 1988 salio otra obra, escrita por Umberto Eco llamado el Pendulo de Foucault. Es un thriller intelectual, con laberintos similares a su novela previa, El Nombre de la Rosa. El Nombre de la Rosa fue hecha pelicula, con Sean Connery haciendo de William y Cristian Slater haciendo de Adso. La pelicula no le hace justicia al excelente libro, pudieses encontrar la pelicula en la seccion Dramones Aburridos de tu tienda de videos preferida, quizas la puedes ver por HBO a las 3 am o entre 5 copias de Tae Bo en la bandeja de liquidacion de DVDs de Me Salve.

El Pendulo de Foucault es excelente, pero requiere esfuerzo para entenderlo. Dan Brown escribe como nene de octavo pero sabe escribir cinematograficamente. Como si estuvieses leyendo un capitulo de 24. Eso lo prefieren los editores, libros que vendan bien en el aeropuerto, no libros intelectuales.

Lo que hace bueno el libro es como Eco presenta la historia de estos editores que publican dos tipos de libros en dos editoriales. Uno tira libros para eruditos de temas historicos y medievales otra editorial usa temas y fotos de los temas serios para inventar teorias de conspiracion y ocultismo de farmacia. Inventan una conspiracion, lo mas ridicula posible que integra todas las conspiraciones en una sola.

El punto es que los grupos terroristas radicales creen que lo que inventaron los editores es cierto. Ahora quieren la clave de algo que no existe. Y para esa verdad hay que asesinar.

El tema es serio. Dan Brown facilmente pudiera ser uno de esos editores con sus cuentos de la Magdalena, los templarios, los illuminati y todo lo demas.

Al punto que voy con esto es que la retorica es muerte. Hitler justifico el holocausto y todas las atrocidades con el patriotismo y la raza aria. Los bosnios y los serbios se mataron entre si por dos versiones de un mismo Dios. El fanatismo enajena, en cualquiera de sus formas.

Para finalizar les dejo mas vertientes del tema discutidas en la red:

Sobre el Libro y Comparando Ambos Autores

El primero incluye discusion del trama del libro y la lista clave del libro

Todo es el CONTEXTO. Lo demas son palabras y especulaciones. Vemos lo que queremos ver. Incluyo aqui la lista, la interpretacion de la lista y la interpretacion correcta de la lista:

http://www.philipcoppens.com/foucault.html

As with “The Da Vinci Code”, this coded parchment forms the backbone of the quest. In the novel, the code reveals itself to be:

a la . . . Saint Jean
36 p charrete de fein
6 . . . entiers avec saiel
p . . . les blancs mantiax
r . . . s . . . chevaliers de Pruins pour la . . . j . nc.
6 foil 6 en 6 places
chascune foil 20 a . . . 720 a . . .
iceste est l’ordonation
al donjon it premiers
it li secunz joste iceus qui . . . pans
it al refuge
it a Nostre Dame de l’altre pan de l’iau
it a l’ostel des popelicans
it a la pierre
3 foiz 6 avant la feste . . . to Grant Pute.

Ardenti reconstructs and translates the text as:

THE (NIGHT OF) SAINT JOHN
36 (YEARS) P(OST) HAY WAIN
6 (MESSAGES) INTACT WITH SEAL
F(OR THE KNIGHTS WITH) THE WHITE CLOAKS [TEMPLARS]
R(ELAP)S(I) OF PROVINS FOR (VAIN)JANCE [REVENGE]
6 TIMES 6 IN SIX PLACES
EACH TIME 20 Y(EARS MAKES) 120 Y(EARS)
THIS IS THE PLAN
THE FIRST GO TO THE CASTLE
IT(ERUM) [AGAIN AFTER 120 YEARS] THE SECOND JOIN THOSE (OF THE) BREAD
AGAIN TO THE REFUGE
AGAIN TO OUR LADY BEYOND THE RIVER
AGAIN TO THE HOSTEL OF THE POPELICANS
AGAIN TO THE STONE
3 TIMES 6 [666] BEFORE THE FEAST (OF THE) GREAT WHORE.

But not everything may appear to be what it seems. With the Plan’s outline largely complete, one member of the research team was diagnosed with cancer. With few time remaining to live, he warns Belbo and Casaubon not to devote time to this madness, but neither heed his warning.
The next attempt to bring the two researchers out of their reverie is attempted by Lia, Casaubon’s partner and mother to his newborn child. She uses a tourist guide of Provins to argue that the coded parchment is in fact nothing more than a merchant’s list of orders:

In Rue Saint Jean:
36 sous for wagons of hay.
Six new lengths of cloth with seal
to rue des Blancs-Manteaux.
Crusaders’ roses to make a jonchee:
six bunches of six in the six following places,
each 20 deniers, making 120 deniers in all.
Here is the order:
the first to the Fort
item the second to those in Porte-aux-Pains
item to the Church of the Refuge
item to the Church of Notre–Dame, across the river
item to the old building of the Cathars (another name for Popelicans)
item to rue de la Pierre-Ronde.
And three bunches of six before the feast, in the whores’ street.

Belbo agrees this is the most logical explanation, is probably the right interpretation, but remains convinced that despite this, the Plan is nevertheless real. Why? Because even though their initial data has been totally discredited, their combined efforts have been able to uncover the secret undercurrent that was present in Western Europe – the Plan. “Not bad, not bad at all,” one of the supporting characters says who is also confronted with their research. “To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”
Even though they are convinced that the Plan is real, that there is a secret brotherhood out there (Tres being the equivalent of the Priory of Sion – both of whom are fabricated secret societies with synarchic overtones), what the actual nature of the Secret is, no-one in the end is too sure about, despite widespread speculation and a series of theories put forward by the team. At one point they consider that “there exists a secret society with branches throughout the world, and its plot is to spread the rumour that a universal plot exists.” Perhaps it is an empty secret… that the secret is that there is no Secret, like when their computer asks the user “Do you know the password?” The answer – and password – being “no”.

www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn024.pdf

UMBERTO ECO AND THE

GRAND DESIGN:REASON AND UNREASON

IN FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM

ROBERT THOMAS
Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum begins duringthe political ferment of late 1960s Italy. It is in this atmos-phere that the narrator first develops his interest in the oc-cult. This interest continues - indeed is fostered by - hissojourn in the rich cultural and mystical admixture of Brazil.He then returns to Italy, and the publishing company he nowworks for decides to use his mystical fascination (and thoseof his colleagues Belbo and Diotavelli) by publishing aseries of “New Age” books. The manuscripts submitted bypotential authors for this series are a strange mixture of rit-ual magic and fantastical theories on the nature of the world.The narrator and his sophisticated colleagues, scornful ofsuch bizarre ideas, seek to parody them, by concocting - asan intellectual game - an occult conspiracy theory explainingthe entire history of the world. Unbeknownst to them, how-ever, in the making of their conspiracy theory they havedrawn not only on knowledge of historical and fictional se-cret societies but also unintentionally on the secrets of avery real group. For this secret society, the ideas of the con-spiracy are anything but an intellectual game. Convincedthat the three have discovered a mystical secret which theydesire, the initiates start to hunt down the three colleagues.Diotavelli by this time is dying of cancer, but Belbo is cap-tured and killed by the occultists when he refuses to revealhis (non-existent) secret knowledge. The book ends with thenarrator waiting for the moment when he too is trackeddown and destroyed.

Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum begins during the political ferment of late 1960s Italy. It is in this atmos-phere that the narrator first develops his interest in the oc-cult. This interest continues - indeed is fostered by - hissojourn in the rich cultural and mystical admixture of Brazil.He then returns to Italy, and the publishing company he nowworks for decides to use his mystical fascination (and thoseof his colleagues Belbo and Diotavelli) by publishing aseries of “New Age” books. The manuscripts submitted bypotential authors for this series are a strange mixture of rit-ual magic and fantastical theories on the nature of the world.The narrator and his sophisticated colleagues, scornful ofsuch bizarre ideas, seek to parody them, by concocting - asan intellectual game - an occult conspiracy theory explainingthe entire history of the world. Unbeknownst to them, how-ever, in the making of their conspiracy theory they havedrawn not only on knowledge of historical and fictional se-cret societies but also unintentionally on the secrets of avery real group. For this secret society, the ideas of the con-spiracy are anything but an intellectual game. Convincedthat the three have discovered a mystical secret which theydesire, the initiates start to hunt down the three colleagues.Diotavelli by this time is dying of cancer, but Belbo is cap-tured and killed by the occultists when he refuses to revealhis (non-existent) secret knowledge. The book ends with thenarrator waiting for the moment when he too is trackeddown and destroyed.

http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/foucault.html

http://randomrobothamsandwich.blogspot.com/2009/05/umberto-eco-versus-dan-brown.html

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/07/da-vinci-code-v-foucaults-pendulum.html

Refutacion Biblica (Apologia Catolica) a los Temas de Da Vinci Code
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/DaVinciCode.htm

Finalmente gracias a Biblioinstruccion por recordarme del tema. En otro articulo podemos detallar el tema del futuro de los medios de almacenaje de informacion.

http://biblioinstruccion.blogspot.com/2010/03/humberto-eco-los-libros-electronicos-el.html
Comente a este articulo lo siguiente:

Sobrevivimos la Edad Media porque se transcribian libros con conocimientos milenarios. El medio donde se guarda la informacion permitio que no se perdiera la informacion tras guerras, pestilencias e incluso al ser borrado por su propio autor. Que garantias hay de que aqui a 5 a/nos se pueda ver la informacion que no sea bautizada por google o yahoo? El futuro sera Kindle? I Phone? que es un floppy? Bloqueado por DRM o altos costos de acceso? El libro tiene una funcion pues transciende sistemas de corta vida o la avaricia del copyright excesivo.

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