De vluchtweg van Casaubon Casaubon's escape route | |||
| Umberto Eco : De Slinger van Foucault. (Parijs/Amsterdam uitgeverij Bert Bakker 1988/1989) | Tardi : De fantastische avonturen van Isabelle Avondrood. deel 2: De Demon van de Eiffeltoren. (Brussel/Parijs uitgeverij Casterman 1976) | ||
Two lines of story, the first completed in 1976 by Tardi (cartoonist) and the second in 1984 by Eco, seem to be influencing one other and have remarkable similarities. What interest us here are the geographical elements as they appear in “Foucault’s Pendulum”, from chapters 111 to 115. A compilation is created from pages 20 to 27 from Tardi’s “The Demon of the Eiffel Tower” which is used as an illustration of excerpts from Foucault’s Pendulum, in particular from chapters 111 and 112 which precede the chapter on the escape of Casaubon.The drawings and route map with locations and matching photos depict a scenario in which one can again experience Casaubon’s escape. The lines under the photo's come from Eco's book. The intrigue: Jacopo Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon, three editors of a publishing company in Milan, discover in an intelligence game the indications to a possible conspiracy that would otherwise have passed unnoticed. The aim of this plot, total world domination, is achieved by way of determining the location from which one can control subsurface streams of the Earth and, with that, the global climate. In chapters 112 to 115, Casaubon travels from Milan to Paris to find Belbo who is kept prisoner by a Secret Society. He finds the location, and from his hiding position he witnesses a rite in which Belbo is interrogated and hung on the rope of Foucault’s Pendulum. Belbo dies. Casaubon escapes, horrified by the events, moments before the outrageous mob notices him. Foto's: N.Hemelaar en J.Zeven, juni 1994, 2003. | |||
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