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Understanding Philip K. Dick (Paperback)
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Understanding Philip K. Dick (Paperback)
Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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Loot Price R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
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A guide to the fantastic world of a science fiction legendAuthor of
more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade
literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly
reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only
increased since his death with the release of numerous feature
films and television series based on his work, including Blade
Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The
Man in the High Castle. In Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl
Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this
groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in
American literature, media culture, and contemporary science
fiction. Dick was at times a postmodernist, a mainstream writer, a
pulp fiction writer, and often all three simultaneously, but as
Link illustrates, he was more than anything else a novelist of
ideas. From this vantage point, Link surveys Dick's tragicomic
biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes
that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link finds across
Dick's writing career an intellectual curiosity that transformed
his science fiction novels from bizarre pulp extravaganzas into
philosophically challenging explorations of the nature of reality,
and it is this depth of vision that continues to garner new
audiences and fresh approaches to Dick's genre-defining tales.
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