The Exegesis of Philip K Dick - Softcover

Dick, Philip K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575132442 ISBN 13: 9780575132443

Publisher: Gollancz, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The final piece of work from one of the world's most visionary authors

From the Back Cover:

One day the contents of my mind moved faster and faster until they ceased being concepts and became percepts. I did not have concepts about the world but perceived it without preconception or even intellectual comprehension. It then resembled the world of "UBIK." As if all the contents of one s mind, if fused, became suddenly alive, a living entity, which took off within one s head, on its own, saw in its own superior way, without regard to what you had ever learned or seen or known. The principle of emergence, as when nonliving matter becomes living. As if information (thought concepts) when pushed to their limit became metamorphosed into something alive."

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0575132442
• ISBN 13: 9780575132443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 976
• Editor: Lethem Jonathan, Jackson Pamela