Post Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:03 pm

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011, Houghton Mifflin)

You can now pre-order this via Amazon. Originally, I heard it would be 2 volumes, but it looks like it will be published as one book which is a better idea I think!
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick [Hardcover]
Philip K. Dick (Author), Pamela Jackson (Editor), Jonathan Lethem (Editor)
Hardcover: 1056 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (November 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547549253
ISBN-13: 978-0547549255

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Product Description
"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant.TheExegesisis 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. Dickis 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 theExegesis, 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 theExegesisand establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.