The Lament of Prometheus An Examination of David Lindsay's a Voyage to Arcturus |
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| Author:
| Wright, John C. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-953739-06-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2021 |
| Publisher: | Wisecraft Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Lament of Prometheus in a nonfiction work in which award-winning science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright sets out to explain the inexplicable: A Voyage to Arcturus written in 1920 by Scottish author David Lindsay, is a fascinating, blasphemous, and magnificent failure.Wright sets out to explore the weird, wild, wonderful world depicted in Lindsay's forgotten masterpiece, to plumb its depths, decode its symbols, discover its secrets, praise its breathtaking literary achievement, and...
More DescriptionLament of Prometheus in a nonfiction work in which award-winning science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright sets out to explain the inexplicable: A Voyage to Arcturus written in 1920 by Scottish author David Lindsay, is a fascinating, blasphemous, and magnificent failure.Wright sets out to explore the weird, wild, wonderful world depicted in Lindsay's forgotten masterpiece, to plumb its depths, decode its symbols, discover its secrets, praise its breathtaking literary achievement, and to name rightly what David Lindsay hid under onion layers of riddles: a striking yet morbid message.