The great American science fiction writer Philip Dick gave rise to a new direction in literature: it was with his light hand that writers, and after them readers, seriously thought about what reality is, how being is so radically different from non-being.
The great American science fiction writer Philip Dick gave rise to a new direction in literature: it was with his light hand that writers, and after them readers, seriously thought about what reality is, how being is so radically different from non-being. Dick was a highly unusual man. So, for example, he firmly believed that he was not just writing prose, but only broadcasting a message sent to humanity from above. A solid and conscientious biography written by the French writer and literary critic Emmanuel Carraire introduces us not only to the formal, external side of Philip Dick’s life, but also to his bizarre inner world — twisted, painful, but at the same time capable of generating masterpieces that do not fade with time style and thought.
Amphora, 351 p.