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9780679734468: Valis
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ISBN 10 : 0679734465 ISBN 13 : 9780679734468
Editeur : Vintage Books, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Dick Philip K

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

"The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic

Biographie de l'auteur

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

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Éditeur
Vintage Books
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679734465
ISBN 13 
9780679734468
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
15
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Personne responsable
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