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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011) ed. Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem

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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

http://www.hmhbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=1449884



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"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."—Jonathan Lethem


Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

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Gaff

Sum, ergo cogito, ergo dubito.

PTY

Iskreno da priznam, ovo Kirkusovo prčkanje po Exegesis bi pre moglo da me odbije negoli privuče, ali... red je red.  :roll:

tomat

€18.74 na bukdipozitoriju, nije strašno. na engleskom amazonu je naslov "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick: 1". je l' to neka greška, ili su planirani neki nastavci?
Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded.

Nightflier

Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
First 666

PTY

Bogami, ovome čovek mora da posveti vreme, i to u silnom obilju, bez ikakvih distrakcija. Skoro pola knjige odlazi na beleške, posvete, raznorazne indekse i rečnik, a rečnik je stvarno neophodan, tu nema zbora, jer bez obzira na odličan urednički posao, ovo svejedno ostaje užasno zahtevno štivo. 

Gaff

Quote from: LiBeat on 10-11-2011, 19:04:25
Bogami, ovome čovek mora da posveti vreme, i to u silnom obilju, bez ikakvih distrakcija...

Računam, otiće nedelju dana (i jače) dok stignem do kraja! No, koliko sam video, štivo će biti interesantan uvid u post 2-3-74 fazu.
Sum, ergo cogito, ergo dubito.

PTY

Quote from: Gaff on 10-11-2011, 19:42:37
Quote from: LiBeat on 10-11-2011, 19:04:25
Bogami, ovome čovek mora da posveti vreme, i to u silnom obilju, bez ikakvih distrakcija...

Računam, otiće nedelju dana (i jače) dok stignem do kraja!


... brzo čitanje je veština koja mi i dandanas izmiče.  :cry:

tomat

Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded.

Melkor

"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."