Summary
Philip Dick: Valis
Theological dilemmas, autobiographical elements and dual personality of the protagonist make Wallis an atypical novel not only when it comes to Dick's work, but also science fiction literature in general. This is his most honest and daring work, whose unexpectedly personal story provides an opportunity for true fans of this writer to get better acquainted with the ideological and philosophical sources of his unreliable realities. While discovering ways to transform madness into a mechanism for observing, interpreting, and solving problems and dilemmas facing the individual, society, and even the universe, Dick shows how it, as a universal diagnosis, becomes a measure of reality. Wallis is a documented attempt to reduce the general, cosmic and unimaginably abstract to concrete, individual and comprehensible, where there is only one constant ∙ God in a multitude of numerous variables. Mladen Jakovljević
Biblos Newsletter
New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop.