"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe:
poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. "The Exegesis "is
the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick
wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a
genius."--Jonathan Lethem
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.
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